Published 1900 onward

94 books

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512

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Double: A Petersburg Poem

This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his «doppelganger» appearing in his life (at work, in society, etc). This «double» has all the qualities that the protagonist lacks....

Greg Giordano and 1 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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497

Gertrude Atherton - Senator North

«When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member of this body, he has much to learn and much to endure. Little does he know of what...

Lynne T and 2 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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546

Arnold Bennett - Buried Alive

The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man...

Simon Evers 5 hours 53 minutes

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512

Henry Handel Richardson - Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various...

Kirsty Leishman 7 hours 6 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

478

Robert E. Howard - People of the Black Circle

«The People of the Black Circle» is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September,...

Mark Nelson 3 hours 36 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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Westerns

461

William MacLeod Raine - Yukon Trail

The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North (filmed as The Grip of the Yukon in 1928) is an adventure yarn from the prodigious output of William MacLeod Raine, who averaged nearly two western novels a year for some 46 years....

Delmar H Dolbier 6 hours 54 minutes

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Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)

General Fiction

514

Harriet Lummis Smith - Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)

The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War. Young men they had known as boys are signing up to train and fight as...

Daryl Wor 5 hours 10 minutes

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Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New)

Published 1900 onward

428

Harriet Lummis Smith - Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New)

Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new characters, and a few peripherally known from the first book. A heavier edge of...

Daryl Wor 5 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

417

Rex Beach - Silver Horde

The Silver Horde, is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and...

Lynne T and 5 more 10 hours 59 minutes

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479

Arnold Bennett - Pretty Lady

‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in...

Simon Evers 8 hours 9 minutes

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521

Gene Stratton-Porter - At the Foot of the Rainbow

This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear friend Dannie for years. His wife Mary, who loves another. And finally...

Kevin W. Davidson and 5 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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434

Harold Bell Wright - Eyes Of The World

The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views as the false world of artists, writers, critics, and their wealthy patrons....

Tom Weiss 11 hours 33 minutes

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New

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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