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Nikolai Chernyshevsky - Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?

Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth century tsarist Russia; translator Nathan Haskell Dole affirms in his...

Expatriate 18 hours 45 minutes

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Annie Fellows Johnston - Joel, a Boy of Galilee

Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and tells him the reason that he is so kind is because of a boy from his hometown...

Esther ben Simonides 3 hours 53 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Landleaguers

Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the...

Angel5 11 hours 53 minutes

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Bonnie Prince Charlie: a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden

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G. A. Henty - Bonnie Prince Charlie: a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden

This is a tale of the son of a Scottish officer, who gets arrested for helping a Jacobite agent. Set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland in 1755, the boy escapes and makes it to France and shares some adventures...

Ryan Cherrick and 3 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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Thomas Dixon, Jr. - Leopard's Spots

The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era — The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this novel were incorporated in the 1915 silent movie classic, " The...

Michele Fry 13 hours 10 minutes

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Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

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Washington Irving - Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house....

Greg Giordano 1 hour 59 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Castle Richmond

Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fitzgerald and his cousin Owen Fitzgerald. Clara – whose previously ‘great’...

Simon Evers 19 hours 47 minutes

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Anatole France - Gods are Athirst

The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. The story follows the young Parisian painter Évariste...

Nicholas Clifford and 12 more 8 hours 32 minutes

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Frederick Marryat - Children of the New Forest (version 2)

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley...

Nick Whitley 12 hours 49 minutes

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Possessed

Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons . An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life...

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Florence Roma Muir Wilson - Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow

A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the War, seeking a spiritual renewal. Deep in the forest he stumbles fatefully...

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Basil King - Wild Olive

Norrie Ford, having been unfairly convicted of murder, has escaped. A lucky chance finds him being rescued by a mysterious girl (the Wild Olive of the title), who sets him up with a new life under a new name in...

Simon Evers 9 hours 26 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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