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Historical Fiction

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Charles Major - When Knighthood Was in Flower

Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for...

Kara Shallenberg and 14 more 9 hours 2 minutes

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Plays

776

Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts (version 2)

A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by Kristingj) Cast: Mrs. Helen Alving, widow of Captain Alving:...

K.G.Cross 2 hours 33 minutes

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More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter by Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson

General Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter by Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. Three gentlemen of little means and no occupation meet in the Bohemian Cigar Divan,...

Don W. Jenkins 7 hours 25 minutes

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Drama

815

Henrik Ibsen - Lady From the Sea

The title character in Ibsen's drama, Ellida Wangel, is married to a prosperous doctor, but feels stifled by her roles as wife and stepmother to her husband's two daughters by a previous marriage, Hilde and Bolette....

2 hours 42 minutes

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Historical Fiction

769

Katharine S. Prichard - Pioneers

The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a...

Kirsty Leishman 8 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

762

Thomas W. Hanshew - Cleek of Scotland Yard

Hamilton Cleek is back — or is he? Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, Mr. Narkom has a series of inexplicable murders to solve, there is...

Ruth Golding 12 hours 46 minutes

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*Non-fiction

835

Night Side of New York

This nonfiction collection of sketches, by «members of the New York press,» takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after dark, with stops along the way to vividly depict scenes ranging from the splendid to...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 22 minutes

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Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3

Poetry

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Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3

2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible of Dickens' short works which had not previously been recorded for...

Andy Minter and 13 more 8 hours 8 minutes Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection - 5 Volumes

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*Non-fiction

847

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer - France in the Nineteenth Century

Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 14 hours 9 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

818

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Historic Waterways

Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. This volume is the record of six hundred miles of canoeing experiences on historic waterways in Wisconsin and Illinois...

Linda Fredericks and 8 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

802

Florence Morse Kingsley - And So They Were Married

This is the story of Elizabeth North, a young woman who becomes engaged and with the aid of a social climbing friend begins to plan her wedding beyond what she can afford. Her friend Evelyn Tripp convinces Elizabeth...

Michele Eaton 2 hours 23 minutes

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Christianity - Other

791

Alice Lady Lovat - Marvels of Divine Grace

These are Alice Lady Lovat's meditations on the treatise «Del Aprecio y Estima de la Divina Gracia,» written by the prolific Roman Catholic theologian and mystic Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, S.J. (1595-1658). Nieremberg's...

dave7 4 hours 7 minutes

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