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Epistolary Fiction

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Jane Austen - Lady Susan

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan , which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady...

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Detective Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Moonstone

The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and...

Mike Gardom and 7 more 20 hours 9 minutes

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Family

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Understood Betsy (version 2)

Elizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet. When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill, poor little Elizabeth Ann is sent to live with the much-feared Putney...

Kymm Zuckert and 1 more 4 hours 43 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Philip Jose Farmer - Green Odyssey

Alan Green is a space traveler stranded on a barbaric planet who has been taken slave and made a consort to an insipid and smelly queen. His slave-wife, though beautiful and smart, nags him constantly. He’s given...

Mark Nelson 6 hours 6 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Daniel Defoe - Journal of the Plague Year

The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.

Denny Sayers 12 hours 5 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Elizabeth and 15 more 18 hours 59 minutes

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Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adventures on the way. (Alex Foster)

Alex Foster and 12 more 6 hours 33 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Stephen Crane - Red Badge of Courage

This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on the subject, Crane's novel does not concentrate on the big picture or the...

James Smith and 13 more 4 hours 55 minutes

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Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860

*Non-fiction

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Andrew Jackson - Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860

A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containing many excerpts from the diaries and accounts of the explorers, this book...

Chris Chapman and 1 more 6 hours 5 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later...

James Smith and 18 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Parasite

Being a physiologist, Austin Gilroy is unconvinced that the occult is real. His friend Professor Wilson, however, is not only convinced that psychical powers are real, but eagerly desires that Gilroy should be...

Carl Vonnoh III 1 hour 58 minutes

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Romance

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gives her whole heart to every endeavor. When the Dashwoods — mother Mrs....

Michelle Crandall and 14 more 12 hours 11 minutes

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