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Romance

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Willa Sibert Cather - Alexander's Bridge (version 3)

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by Willa Cather, published under the name Willa Sibert Cather. Heavily influenced by the works of Henry James, the book tells the story of bridge builder Bartley Alexander....

Miranda Stinson and 1 more 2 hours 29 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem - Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)

Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village — the world of my...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 36 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Thomas Paine - Age of Reason

The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion...

lukkystarr 8 hours 12 minutes

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Elizabeth Davis Bancroft - Letters from England, 1846-1849

Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamicy years in European hstory. As Ambassador to England from the United States, George moved in the highest...

Sibella Denton 3 hours 7 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Isabella L. Bird - Englishwoman in America

Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chicago, Prince Edward Island, and Cincinatti. Her observations on the trials and...

Sibella Denton 12 hours 12 minutes

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Antiquity

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Popular History of Ireland, Book 01

Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 1 begins with the earliest modern settlement of Ireland...

Sibella Denton and 4 more 2 hours 14 minutes Popular History of Ireland - books 1-12

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Mirror of the Sea

The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)

Peter Kelleher 8 hours 6 minutes

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Sonnets

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Lady Mary Wroth - Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is the first sonnet sequence written by an Englishwoman. Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of sonnet sequences by making the speaker a woman (Pamphilia, whose name means...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 43 minutes

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Moths of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 — December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 32 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Maynard Barbour - That Mainwaring Affair

As wealthy financier, Hugh Mainwaring dictates his last will and testament to his private secretary, it would be impossible for him to imagine the shocking chain of events that he is about to set into motion. This...

J. M. Smallheer 9 hours 24 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Henry Haaren - Famous Men of the Middle Ages

“THE study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features. Not until these have been fixed in memory will the lesser features fall into their appropriate places and assume...

David Kleparek and 10 more 4 hours 40 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Notker the Stammerer - Life of Charlemagne

Notker's work consists of anecdotes relating chiefly to the Emperor Charlemagne and his family. It was written for Charles the Fat, great-grandson of Charlemagne, who visited Saint Gall in 883. Traditionally, it has...

R. S. Steinberg and 1 more 2 hours 36 minutes

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