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Memoirs

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Matthew A. Henson - Negro Explorer at the North Pole

In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the never-before reached point on earth, the North Pole. «Robert Peary is...

Lee Smalley 3 hours 41 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Anonymous - Book Of Jasher

Jasher (The Sefer haYashar (first edition 1552) The Hebrew title may be translated Sefer haYashar — «Book of the Upright» — but it is known in English translation mostly as The Book of Jasher following English...

CJ Plogue 14 hours 51 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Deborah Alcock - Spanish Brothers

The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian theme. The Spanish Brothers is set in the sixteenth century and deals with Protestant martyrdom during the Spanish Inquisition. Follow the...

KeiPie and 6 more 12 hours 23 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Hawker - Cecilia de Noël

Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different viewpoints. — Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales

David Wales 3 hours 29 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Fergus Hume - Dwarf's Chamber And Other Stories

Short Stories by Fergus Hume (1859 – 1932), a prolific English novelist. — Summary by wikipedia

David Wales 10 hours 6 minutes

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Historical

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Charlotte Maria Tucker - Spanish Cavalier

When his father dies, Lucius Lepine goes to Spain as a clerk. His fellow clerk, Don Aguilera, doesn't come to work one day. Lucius is worried, he has heard rumors of what has happened to Aguilera. What has happened?...

Esther ben Simonides 4 hours 56 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Maurice Leblanc - Eight Strokes of the Clock (Version 2)

The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of short stories centred on Arsène Lupin, former gentleman thief extraordinaire. In this series, Lupin has abandoned his life of crime in favour of that of crime solver....

Cate Barratt 6 hours 29 minutes

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*Non-fiction

960

Patanjali - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (version 2)

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail. The...

Jothi Tharavant 4 hours 10 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Judith Gautier - Memoirs of a White Elephant

«We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. There is, therefore, nothing unreasonable in the supposition that the White Elephant...

Ed Humpal and 7 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

857

Edgar Saltus - Mr. Incoul's Misadventure

Saltus has been compared to Oscar Wilde for wit and language. His novels are entertaining, yet philosophical, exposing the vagaries of human nature. The publishers promoted Mr. Incoul's Misadventure thus: «A novel...

Lynne T and 6 more 4 hours 29 minutes

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Early Modern

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Daniel Defoe - Storm

The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Storm narrates the calamitous events of November 1703 that are framed by the...

Denny Sayers 9 hours 8 minutes

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Plays

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George Farquhar - Recruiting Officer

The author was himself a recruiting officer, and possibly gathered all the materials for this play on the very spot where he has placed his scene—Shrewsbury. He has dedicated the piece «to all friends round the...

2 hours 12 minutes

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