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Margaret S. Comrie - Key to the Riddle

Young Azerole Montoux and her brother Leon find themselves separated from their family by the religious persecutions of 1686. Threatened by the authorities and forced to depend on strangers, they must decide whether...

BookAngel7 7 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George W. Ogden - Trail's End

When an agriculture professor wanders into a wicked Kansas cowtown in order to experiment raising wheat, both the professor and the town get more than they bargain for. A wild and wooly Western. (Summary by Jeff...

Jeff Chesnut and 1 more 9 hours 12 minutes

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Anthony Munday - Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives only in a single manuscript, now owned by the British Library. The manuscript...

Rapunzelina 2 hours 26 minutes

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Isabella Varley Banks - Manchester Man

Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to commercial success mirrors the rise of the city at the heart of the...

Phil Benson 15 hours 35 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 4

Book 4 — Cardinal Wolsey. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other...

KHand and 7 more 2 hours 54 minutes Windsor Castle

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 3

Book 3 — The History of the Castle. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel...

Bellona Times and 1 more 1 hour 36 minutes Windsor Castle

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Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot

One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to have been an inspiration to Charles Dickens and Henry James as well as...

James E. Carson 11 hours 44 minutes

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Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

Fantastic Fiction

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Castello Newton Holford - Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed if one man with the vision, altruism and determination to build a state...

Ruth Golding 5 hours 13 minutes

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Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana

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George Washington Cable - Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana

This is a gentle, delightful story of life and love on the bayoux of Acadian Louisiana during the latter half of the 19th century. Bonaventure is a Creole raised among the Acadians. He loves learning, and through his...

Jacquerie 9 hours 54 minutes

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Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a «a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed...

David Wales 5 hours 15 minutes

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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has...

Arnie Horton and 5 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Christmas at Thompson Hall

«A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale»; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor injuries, embarassment, and Trollope's usual 'nice' social interactions. (Summary by...

Arnold 1 hour 48 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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