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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

450

Joris-Karl Huysmans - Là-bas

The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the...

Peter Tucker 8 hours 58 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

484

Herman Melville - Pierre, or The Ambiguities

The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.

Naduplants and 1 more 17 hours 10 minutes

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Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous

Action & Adventure Fiction

427

John Habberton - Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous

These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about...

David Wales 14 hours 55 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

525

Charles Dickens - Old Curiosity Shop (version 3)

Nell and her elderly grandfather must flee from home after losing their shop and home to the evil Mr. Quilp. Her good-for-nothing brother, convinced that his grandfather is hoarding a great fortune intended for Nell,...

Hamlet 21 hours 20 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

431

Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 2

Rodolphe, is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great compassion...

Celine Major 10 hours 12 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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Literary Fiction

502

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - Armand Durand

Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family....

Bruce Pirie 7 hours 41 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

459

George Eliot - Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot, first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary essays by an...

Josh Mitteldorf 6 hours 43 minutes

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Science Fiction

519

Mary E Bradley Lane - Mizora: A Prophecy.

After being exiled from her home and family, Vera Zarovich finds herself in Mizora, a civilization at the center of the Earth made up entirely of women. This text recounts her experiences there and what she learns...

mjgreene and 7 more 5 hours 48 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

430

Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 3

Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great...

Celine Major 9 hours 50 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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Published 1800 -1900

475

Frederic Werden Pangborn - Alice; or The Wages of Sin

This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm tints, any cheering or amusing passages, the author will be glad to know that...

Ashley M. and 4 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

479

Ivan Turgenev - Lear of the Steppes, etc.

This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 16 minutes

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Romance

470

Hollis Godfrey - Man Who Ended War

Jim Orrington, news reporter, is at the office when the Secretary of War brings in a letter--mostly likely a prank--that demands all the nations of the world to disarm in one year or have all their battleships...

Sylviamb 6 hours 22 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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