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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4)

Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories that were originally illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first set of short stories that were published and followed the publishing of his...

David Clarke 10 hours 56 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Herbert George Jenkins - Rain-Girl

Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he sells all his possessions (except his books), and sets off on a tramp...

Anna Simon 7 hours 5 minutes

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Family Life

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Robert Kemp Philp - Reason Why

This collection of useful information on «Common Things» is put in the interesting form of «Why and Because,» and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of...

Anusha Iyer and 17 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Family Life

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William Ruschenberger - Elements of Mammalogy

The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to mammalogy. The...

laurencetrask and 9 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Two Sides of a Question

Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a woman can be held captive, held back from the “intoxication of freedom.” In...

Expatriate 6 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Gaylord Dubois - Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress

Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying corps. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 5 hours 15 minutes

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General

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Amy Le Feuvre - His Big Opportunity

Dudley and Rob were taught in Sunday School that they should use the opportunities God gives to help others. Ever since, they have been looking for 'their big opportunity' to do good for somebody. — Summary by Adele...

Adele de Pignerolles 3 hours 44 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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John Ackworth - Doxie Dent

Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Clegg and his Beckside cronies with a novel. Jabez's niece, the young and...

Phil Benson 7 hours 26 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Hawker - Mademoiselle Ixe

This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscript had been previously rejected by many publishers. The heroine is a...

David Wales 2 hours 48 minutes

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Poetry

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G. K. Chesterton - Wild Knight and Other Poems

A collection of poems that tend to revolve around the theme of the wonder of the world. It includes the short, poetic play, «The Wild Knight». Summary by Robert Smith

Robert G. Smith 1 hour 52 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Pamela, Volume 2

Pamela, tells the story of a 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. He abducts her, locks her up in one...

Michele Eaton and 13 more 23 hours

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Memoirs

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Elizabeth Gertrude Stern - My Mother and I

Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's Americanization and how it ultimately alienated her from her parents....

Sue Anderson 3 hours 36 minutes

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