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Historical Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Colonel Chabert

Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife, who has remarried and has gone up in the world. This novella by Balzac lays...

Nicole Lee 2 hours 2 minutes

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Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations

Religious Fiction

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Dante Alighieri - Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations

A Four Quartets for the End of Time, these works stretch from the death and rebirth of a living land, England/Albion, to the death of the world as we know it in the Book of Revelations, going by way of a journey of...

Tony Addison 43 hours 1 minute

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Basil Hall Chamberlain - Aino Folk-Tales

Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of whom still live in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Ranging over all...

Expatriate 2 hours 21 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Frances Jermain - In the Path of the Alphabet

Language: we all use it and few of us think about the form it takes on the page. But how did the transmittal of ideas in written form evolve from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the ABCs in use in most countries around the...

Lynne T and 5 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

Historical Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guerre is suspected of no serious crimes, his imposter, Arnaud du Tilh, engaged...

John Van Stan 1 hour 46 minutes

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Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy

Art, Design & Architecture

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Edward Armitage - Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy

This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing, color, decorative painting, finish, choice of subject, composition of...

David Wales 8 hours 29 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Carolyn Wells - Clue

Once Carolyn Wells began, or re-invented her writing career, 'The Clue' was her initial book which strayed from children's writings into mysteries and detective stories. It is also when we are introduced to her...

Roger Melin 8 hours 1 minute

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 8)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 8...

Jim Locke and 6 more 13 hours 42 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Maid Of Sker

Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not an ordinary girl. But why did she have to be saved from the sea by a fisherman? This story is through the eyes of the fisherman, who followed Bardie throughout...

Jim Locke and 1 more 22 hours 10 minutes

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Single author

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Anne Killigrew - Poems (1686)

These are the original, tender and thoughtful poems of a young female artist who lived and died in seventeenth century London — only 70 years after William Shakespeare. Her diction is readily accessible to...

Arthur Krolman 1 hour 49 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Harriet Anna Cheever - Lord Dolphin

«Now who ever heard of a fish's setting up and telling his own story...I am not a bit proud but just a good natured chap that has decided to spin a sea yard for the amusement, and I hope the instruction, it may be of...

James K. White and 3 more 2 hours 6 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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George Payne Rainsford James - Agnes Sorel

The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession to...

Lynne T 17 hours 1 minute

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