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Historical Fiction

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John Galsworthy - Fraternity

A satire of middle-class complacency and artistic aspiration. It is the story of a strange bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a mystic tract. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Simon Evers 10 hours 13 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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John Galsworthy - Country House

In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth Saga”. This is a novel of English society as 1900 approaches. A divorce is...

Bob R 9 hours 6 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Francis Marion Crawford - Wandering Ghosts

This is a collection of seven ghost stories by Francis Marion Crawford. The volume includes all of the essential ingredients for good ghost and horror stories, such as mysterious deaths, haunted houses, and even...

Dan Gurzynski and 4 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police - A Tale of the Macleod Trail

Historical Fiction

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Ralph Connor - Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police - A Tale of the Macleod Trail

Cameron, a young man from Edinburgh, is a university student who is a rising star on the football team. When the big day comes and he nearly fails his team, he doubts he'll ever be good for anything ever again. Things...

Lynne T and 5 more 12 hours 29 minutes

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Memoirs

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John Aubrey - Brief Lives Volume II

Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying...

Nicole Lee 8 hours 18 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Arthur J. Rees - Hand in the Dark

An ancient English country house with a storied and bloody history is the setting for this intriguing mystery. It is the autumn of 1918. The War to End All Wars is still raging in Europe, but in this peaceful setting...

Jacquerie 10 hours 43 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing, painting as a...

Garth Burton and 8 more 6 hours 47 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Epistolary Fiction

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Taras Bulba and Other Tales

A collection of classic Russian literature from the mind of one of the world's well know authors. The collection includes Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait,...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Charles Boardman Hawes - Dark Frigate

The frigate Rose of Devon rescues from a wreck in mid-ocean twelve men who show their gratitude by seizing the Rose, killing her captain and sailing toward the Caribbean where they hope to plunder Spanish towns and...

Kathrine Engan 7 hours 23 minutes

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Ballads

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Sir Walter Scott - Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

Marmion is an epic poem in six cantos, written in emulation of the ancient Scottish minstrel style which was of such great interest to Scott. Unlike its predecessor, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, this one contains...

Peter Tucker 4 hours 17 minutes

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Short Stories

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Myrtle Reed - Threads of Grey and Gold

This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic, sometimes melancholy atmosphere so characteristic of Myrtle Reed's stories....

MaryAnn and 10 more 6 hours 40 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Robert Cortes Holliday - Walking-Stick Papers

Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and...

David Wales 6 hours 40 minutes

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