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World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

This is the first 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 26 more 18 hours 32 minutes World's Story

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the...

mb 13 hours 49 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Mr. Prohack

Mr Prohack, an ordinary official in the Treasury and leading a hum-drum life, suddenly and unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money which, with a lucky investment, he turns into a fortune. This humorous book follows...

Simon Evers 12 hours 11 minutes

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George Payne Rainsford James - Darnley

A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple. The knight, for such he appears to be, rushes to their aid. Soon after, the...

Lynne T 18 hours 33 minutes

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Honoré de Balzac - Colonel Chabert

Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife, who has remarried and has gone up in the world. This novella by Balzac lays...

Nicole Lee 2 hours 2 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guerre is suspected of no serious crimes, his imposter, Arnaud du Tilh, engaged...

John Van Stan 1 hour 46 minutes

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Mary Cholmondeley - Diana Tempest

Colonel Tempest, his wastrel son Archie and beautiful daughter Diana (Di) are dismayed when they are cut out of the will of old Mr Tempest, Colonel Tempest’s brother. All of the Tempest fortune and estates at...

Simon Evers 12 hours 12 minutes

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Unto Caesar

«The State,» he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, «hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei for this slave. 'Tis too late now to make further bids for her.» But a pair of large blue...

Beth Thomas and 5 more 12 hours 29 minutes

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George Farquhar - Love and a Bottle

This play was produced in 1698 at Drury Lane Theatre. From the bustle of its plot, the variety of its incidents, and the sustained humour of its dialogue, it met with so favourable a reception that Farquhar henceforth...

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Dash for Khartoum

When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid returns, intent on using the boys to get money. When the boy she chooses...

deongines and 2 more 13 hours 15 minutes

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Edmund Flagg - Monte-Cristo's Daughter

«Monte-Cristo's Daughter,» a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to «The Count of Monte-Cristo,» Alexander Dumas' masterwork, and the continuation and conclusion of that great...

Jim Locke 9 hours 37 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jim Kjelgaard - Rescue Dog of the High Pass

Jim Kjelgaard has long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who have gone out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travelers lost in the deep snows of the Swiss mountain passes. Unable to find the...

Mike Pelton and 1 more 2 hours 41 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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