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Published before 1800

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Charles Brockden Brown - Arthur Mervyn

Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the illness and is rescued by a kindly doctor. Arthur tells the doctor and his wife...

Margaret Espaillat 17 hours 29 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out...

Neeru Iyer and 11 more 10 hours 17 minutes

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Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation

Romance

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Louisa May Alcott - Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation

Written by Louisa May Alcott under her pseudonym, A. M. Barnard, this Christmas story deals with the themes of love and defending one's honor. Although he is disinherited and poor, Maurice Traherne tries to win the...

Elli and 3 more 2 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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A. A. Milne - Once on a Time

When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle during breakfast provokes a series of incidents which escalate into war....

Julie Bynum and 8 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Thomas Frost - In Kent with Charles Dickens

By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of this book to boost sales. Frost tells a good tale, and the book is not...

Ruth Golding 6 hours 8 minutes

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Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

Antiquity

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Gaius (Sallust) Sallustius Crispus - Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as «Sallust». Nearly contemporary to the events he describes, he is supposed to have been a...

mwharr and 7 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Daniel Defoe - Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a «bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy....

Denny Sayers 13 hours 24 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Elizabeth Prentiss - Aunt Jane's Hero

Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her «hero», Horace, is far different: in the beginning of the story, he is a good but a little...

Jean A and 2 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Flower of the North

Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he thought he knew. However, tucked in among the rocks and hills lies an...

Roger Melin 8 hours 25 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Pansy - Chautauqua Girls at Home

Sequel to Four Girls at Chautauqua. Ruth, Flossy, Eurie, and Ruth return home as new Christians, eager to begin working. Their new faith clashes with their old lives, which they must overcome, as well as the...

TriciaG 8 hours 45 minutes The Chautauqua Girls Series by Pansy

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Reef

George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, Anna’s daughter’s naïve and young governess. Sophy’s relationship with Darrow...

Elli and 8 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - World Set Free

The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered a prophetical novel foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons. A constant theme in Wells's work, such as his 1901 nonfiction...

LivelyHive 8 hours 10 minutes

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