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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Henry Bishop - Tom of the Raiders

Young Adult historical fiction of a young man joining the Union Army and taking part in the Great Locomotive Chase. (Summary by Brett Downey)

Brett W. Downey 4 hours 14 minutes

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Henryk Sienkiewicz - Deluge Volume 1

The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as «the Trilogy,» having been preceded by...

Piotr Nater and 10 more 23 hours 56 minutes

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General Fiction

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Alexander Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant

«The Daughter of the Commandant» (better known as «The Captain's Daughter») is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, and is considered to be his finest prose work. The novel is a romanticized...

Kevin W. Davidson 3 hours 57 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Louise de la Valliere

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou...

Robert Snoza and 9 more 18 hours 23 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles King - Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier

Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He wrote and edited over 60 books and novels. Among his list of titles are...

David Wales 7 hours 56 minutes

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General Fiction

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Sword of Antietam

«The Sword of Antietam» tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in «The Guns of Bull Run» and continued through «The Guns of Shiloh» and «The Scouts of Stonewall.» The young...

ashleighjane and 5 more 8 hours 34 minutes The Civil War Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mary Hallock Foote - In Exile and Other Stories

Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the...

David Wales 5 hours 36 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Group of Noble Dames

The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue—the faintest...

Libby Gohn 6 hours 52 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation)

”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a broad and mighty river flowing onward with all the majesty of Fate. On its...

MaryAnn 15 hours 2 minutes

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Christopher Marlowe - Edward II

Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy focuses on the downfall of King Edward II, whose love for his favorite courtier, Piers Gaveston, leads to rebellion. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast Gaveston:...

2 hours 53 minutes

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Mary Esther Miller MacGregor - Black-Bearded Barbarian

A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam)

Edmund Bloxam 4 hours 26 minutes

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Mark Twain - Horse's Tale

Soldier Boy is the top steed at Fort Paxton. He is Buffalo Bill’s favorite horse and has led a life of glory and honor. One day General Alison’s orphaned niece arrives and proceeds to charm every man, woman, and beast...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 49 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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