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General Fiction

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Richard Harding Davis - In the Fog

The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called «The Grill,» where an American gentleman arrests the attention of four other men by relating how one night he got lost in a thick London fog. He stumbled...

Bob Gonzalez 2 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

952

Walter De la Mare - Return (de la Mare version)

A story of psychological horror, The Return explores ideas of identity, love, and alienation. Arthur grapples with the reactions of his family and community, and his own sanity, when he experiences a sudden and...

Corinna Schultz 9 hours 27 minutes

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Christianity - Other

785

Henry Edward Manning - Sin and Its Consequences

Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) was an Anglican priest who, in 1851, converted to Roman Catholicism. In 1865, he was appointed archbishop of Westminster, which is the mother diocese of Roman Catholics in England and...

dave7 7 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

886

Benjamin Disraeli - Henrietta Temple

The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage to diminish....

Linda Andrus and 18 more 17 hours 31 minutes

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*Non-fiction

877

Peter Kropotkin - Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but also about 19th century Russian society and politics. He was born into the...

Elin 7 hours 31 minutes

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General Fiction

840

Edgar Wallace - Green Rust (Version 2)

Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill...

Kirsten Wever 9 hours 50 minutes

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Christianity - Other

726

Henry Edward Manning - Love of Jesus to Penitents

Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) was an Oxford-educated Anglican clergyman who converted to Roman Catholicism after the Privy Council ordered the Church of England in 1850 to reinstate an heretical vicar. Manning was...

dave7 2 hours 44 minutes

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General Fiction

730

Ernest Poole - His Family

The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile, electricity, lighting, radio, telephone and cinema. Our present time of...

James E. Carson 10 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

802

Max Brand - Gunman's Reckoning

A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 45 minutes

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Historical Fiction

804

Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs

This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian. The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from...

Maria Therese 13 hours 29 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

809

Selma Lagerlöf - Emperor of Portugallia

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Emperor of...

Lars Rolander 7 hours 10 minutes

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Single Author Collections

710

M. E. Francis - In a North Country Village

M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant...

Phil Benson 5 hours

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