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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Rolf Boldrewood - Plain Living

Seemingly down-on-his-luck Australian sheep rancher and orchard grower kindly teaches his loving family the value of money through 'plain living'. Fellow fans of Jon Cleary's «The Sundowners», set a generation later,...

VfkaBT 8 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

937

Gertrude Atherton - Ancestors: A Novel

Flora, the daughter of a clergyman, grew up the playmate of the castle children but learned early on that a certain prettiness and good breeding did not put her in the same class as her friends. With the sudden death...

Lynne T 20 hours 58 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

872

Carolyn Wells - Chain of Evidence

The Mystery: ”Mr. Stone," I began, «if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there was no possible means of ingress, and if in the morning it was found that one of...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 19 minutes

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Historical Fiction

959

Émile Zola - Fortune of the Rougons

The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. In his introduction Zola indicates that...

Peter Tucker 13 hours 14 minutes

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Beacon Lights of History, Vol 4: Imperial Antiquity

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John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Vol 4: Imperial Antiquity

Volume 4 discusses some of the key leaders of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius and Constantine, as well as important religious figures such as Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine. Summary by...

KHand 7 hours 55 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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M. R. James - Thin Ghost And Others

Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 3 hours 8 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke

This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and how to find adventure. But over the course of his career, adventure finds...

Jim Lardner and 8 more 19 hours 43 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

910

Washington Irving - Bracebridge Hall

Famed American humorist and essayist Washington Irving published a series of short pieces entitled «The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman» in 1815. Included in that collection were the chapters which later...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 5 hours 9 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

874

Ida M. Tarbell - Rising of the Tide

The subtitle is «the story of Sabinsport», and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914. About a dozen characters people its story. It shows how the coming of the Great War...

Bob R 9 hours 31 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Bleak House (version 4)

Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Monthly sales substantially exceeded his previous bestseller David Copperfield....

Peter John Keeble 34 hours 4 minutes

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Sports & Recreation

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Hudson Stuck - Ascent of Denali

The story of the First Ascent of Denali by Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper and Robert Tatum in 1913, recorded in celebration of the restoration of the mountain's original name. ( summary by Fritz)

Phil Schempf 4 hours 27 minutes

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General Fiction

994

Mrs. Henry de la Pasture - Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square

Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady. Jeanne Marney, a country girl, comes to London to care for her ailing aunt....

jenno and 5 more 8 hours 50 minutes

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