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Alexandre Dumas - d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3)

The d'Artagnan Romances are six volumes that intertwine exciting events (real and fictionalized) from 17th-century Europe and the life of the most adored French musketeer of that period, Charles de Batz-Castelmore...

John Van Stan 26 hours 34 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Robert Hugh Benson - By What Authority?

Two wealthy families are neighbors in Elizabethan England; one is staunchly Catholic and the other is devoutly Protestant. The attractive young scions of the families are drawn to each other in friendship and love,...

Carol Pelster 23 hours 13 minutes

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Forrest Crissey - Tattlings of a Retired Politician

«The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and protege Ned who is still busy 'carving a career back in the old state.'» ( F....

DrPGould and 4 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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Charles Reade - Cloister and the Hearth

'The Cloister and the Hearth', by Charles Reade, was published in 1861. It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe, telling the story of the love between Gerard Eliason, an artist turned...

Tom Denholm 36 hours 16 minutes

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Violet Jacob - Flemington

This adventure historical fiction novel is set in Angus, Scotland during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It has all the elements of a good war novel: spies, betrayals, politics, and even a love story (but not quite...

Nan Dodge 8 hours 58 minutes

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World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 23 more 16 hours 12 minutes World's Story

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Basil King - Empty Sack

The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his lowly position in the bank and his subsequent death, the family struggles...

Simon Evers 10 hours 25 minutes

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Walter Pater - Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2

The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the book traces its title character's...

DrPGould 5 hours 20 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Melville Davisson Post - Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries

Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia hill country. His...

Winston Tharp 6 hours 27 minutes

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Gordon Casserly - Jungle Girl

Mrs Norton is the wife of the Political Officer and confident of Mr. Wargrave who as an officer ends up at her husbands Border Outpost, Ranga Duar in British India after meeting Violet on a different Border Outpost....

Lynda Marie Neilson 10 hours 21 minutes

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Sir Walter Scott - Legend of Montrose

A Legend of Montrose is one of Sir Walter Scott's Tales of my Landlord . It is set in the tumultuous 17th century during the Earl of Montrose's military campaign in Scotland. Allan M'Aulay and his friend Lord...

deongines and 1 more 10 hours 59 minutes

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Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763

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Samuel Madden - Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763

Imagine a world in which there were no major revolutionary upheavals (the American, French and Russian revolutions did not occur), there was no Victorian Age, the Great War (World War I) went unfought. No Cold War, no...

DrPGould 3 hours 31 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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