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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Buchan - Greenmantle

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr...

RedToby and 7 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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Short Stories

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Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio

Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a...

Stewart Wills and 20 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Nicholas is forced to unwelcome employment to help secure support for his...

Czechchris and 18 more 34 hours

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Political Science

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Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (Books I and II)

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book...

Carl Manchester and 15 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Edgar Wallace - Clue of the Twisted Candle

Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence. (Summary by Gesine)

Lizzie Driver and 12 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in...

D.E. Wittkower 3 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Giambattista Basile - Stories from Pentamerone

This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stories as the basis of modern fairy tales. Be warned however, that these stories...

Joy Chan 7 hours 44 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Alan Edward Nourse - Star Surgeon

Dal Timgar had always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous adversity from classmates, professors, and some of the highest ranking...

Scott D. Farquhar 5 hours 25 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno

The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense...

Lucy Perry and 10 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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The Gawain Poet - Gawayne and the Green Knight

Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight , a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance...

Betsie Bush 1 hour 32 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucretia P. Hale - Peterkin Papers

The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an...

entada 4 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Washington Square

Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict...

Dawn 7 hours 24 minutes

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