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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 3

This is book 3 of 5. — An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Alina and 14 more 10 hours 59 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights (Version 2)

Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this...

Ruth Golding 14 hours 49 minutes

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Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat”...

John W. Michaels 13 hours 26 minutes

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Alexandre Dumas - Man in the Iron Mask

In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal system, forced to wear a mask when seen by any but his jailer or his valet....

Mark F. Smith 21 hours 4 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Victor Hugo - Hunchback of Notre Dame

One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of fiction — Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris,...

Mark Nelson 21 hours 51 minutes

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 2

This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

J. M. Smallheer and 26 more 12 hours 55 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has «great expectations» of a future inheritance from...

Mark F. Smith 20 hours 29 minutes

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Henry James - Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the «major phase» of James' career. The Golden Bowl...

Lee Ann Howlett 22 hours 5 minutes

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Murasaki Shikibu - Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)

The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes...

Moira Fogarty and 7 more 8 hours 52 minutes

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Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818, and...

Cori Samuel 8 hours

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Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy...

Adrian Praetzellis 17 hours 52 minutes

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Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carrie (1900) is his first novel and tells the story of a young country girl who...

J. M. Smallheer and 6 more 17 hours 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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