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Romance

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Mary Anerley

It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two sisters, Philippa and Eliza, while the squire's son is disinherited. The family...

Lynne T and 10 more 20 hours 24 minutes

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Romance

434

Harriet Theresa Comstock - Place Beyond The Winds

Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call «the in-place, the place beyond the winds». There are so many traditions, so many things to be proud of, yet Priscilla is different. She dreams...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 1 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

524

George Gissing - Crown Of Life

So what is the crown of life? Follow the journey of Piers and Irene as they attempt to discover. It is both a coming of age novel and love story at the same time, one which would bring delight to philosophers with...

annie70 and 1 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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458

George Gissing - Our Friend The Charlatan

Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his numerous courtships of women. It also describes the moral decline of a man...

Jim Locke 13 hours 43 minutes

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Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1

Historical Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1

A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the...

Lynne T and 4 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Romance

473

Catherine Carswell - Open The Door

This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her complexities and contradictions, some of which are faced by women almost 100...

Mark Nelson and 10 more 16 hours 19 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

606

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wyvern Mystery

A classic with a pinch of romance, a pinch of gothic, and a dash of mystery, are you interested yet? When young Alice Maybell’ father dies she is taken in by Squire Fairfield, a widower with two handsome young sons,...

Amy and 11 more 15 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

545

Grace Livingston Hill - Dawn of the Morning

Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's whom she has only met, but the wedding does not go as planned. Scared and...

Barbara Hale and 10 more 9 hours 8 minutes

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Romance

477

Franklin Pierce Adams - Women I'm Not Married To

This poem, by Franklin P. Adams, is the sequel to/answer to Dorothy Parker's poem, Women I'm Not Married To, with a decidedly different but equally humorous take on the matter. ( Summary by Michele Fry )

David Lawrence and 11 more 20 minutes

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d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3)

Action & Adventure Fiction

621

Alexandre Dumas - d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3)

The d'Artagnan Romances are six volumes that intertwine exciting events (real and fictionalized) from 17th-century Europe and the life of the most adored French musketeer of that period, Charles de Batz-Castelmore...

John Van Stan 26 hours 34 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Humorous Fiction

519

C. J. Dennis - Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme

Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town,...

Son of the Exiles 1 hour 21 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

476

Emily Ponsonby - Violet Osborne - Trilogy

«This book is in turns funny and sad. Violet Osborne is a very beloved child with no financial problems. She is both beautiful and good, and of course she must be happy. Yet, as we learn, she is a manipulative and...

Monika Rolley and 9 more 12 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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