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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Lady Anna

When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative — `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present...

Simon Evers 13 hours 8 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 2)

The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz. As Baum says in the introduction «It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 6 minutes Oz books

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Science Fiction

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William Henry Hudson - Crystal Age

A Crystal Age is a utopian novel written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. The book has been called a «significant S-F milestone» and has been noted for its anticipation of the «modern ecological mysticism»...

Sandra Luna and 7 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charles Norris Williamson - Golden Silence

Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 20 hours 7 minutes

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General

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Eva K. Betz - Yankee at Molokai

As a daring soldier in the Union Army, Ira Dutton earned the respect and affection of the men around him. Handsome and affable, he could have had a full social life when the war was over. But he felt that his «wild...

Maria Therese 2 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Wood Campbell. Jr. - Ultimate Weapon

The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a...

Richard Kilmer 3 hours 39 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Doctor Wortle's School

Anthony Trollope’s fortieth novel, published in 1881, concerns a respectable Christian boys’ school whose proprietor unknowingly hires a woman who apparently has two husbands: A devoted English scholar and an abusive...

Angel5 6 hours 8 minutes

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Nature

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Mary Hunter Austin - Land of Little Rain

The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into the Mojave Desert. Mary Austin finds beauty in the harsh landscape: «This is...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 19 minutes

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Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

General

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Pádraic Colum - Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

Also known as «The Children's Homer,» this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 19 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - Not Quite Eighteen

Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these...

Bridget Gaige 4 hours 22 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Pope Leo I (Leo the Great) - Sermons of Leo the Great

Leo the Great was unanimously elected Bishop of Rome on September 29, 440 AD. At the Council of Chalcedon, his famous «Tome» was a decisive contribution to the Christological controversies of the fifth century. But...

Jonathan Lange 8 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Roderick Hudson

Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student...

Nicholas Clifford 13 hours 21 minutes

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