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Humorous Fiction

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F. Anstey - Talking Horse And Other Stories

A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range from humorous and whimsical to haunting and thought-provoking. — Summary by...

Lynne T and 6 more 8 hours 2 minutes

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War & Military

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Alec John Dawson - Somme Battle Stories

Stories of World War I warfare, published in 1916 in the midst of the war. (That's why names of persons and units are literally «blanked» out.) Alec John Dawson (1872 — 1951), generally known as A. J. Dawson...

David Wales 3 hours 3 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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William John Locke - Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. One day, he encounters a young girl in a London park who has escaped from a...

Simon Evers 8 hours 54 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charlotte Mary Yonge - Armourer's Prentices

Set in the sixteenth century, two young boys are left orphans and are turned out of their home by their older brother, or, more particularly, his shrewish wife. John has taken over their father's position as verdurer,...

Lynne T and 6 more 11 hours 23 minutes

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Short Stories

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William Patten - International Short Stories Volume 2: English Stories

The second volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on 'English' short stories, although it includes writers from other parts of the British isles. It features pieces by William Thackeray, Charles Dickens,...

Tadhg and 10 more 13 hours 21 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Mariana Alcoforado - Letters of a Portuguese Nun

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun (Les Lettres Portugaises) were first published anonymously in Paris in 1669. The five passionate letters in book form were a publishing sensation since their appearance, with five...

Leni 2 hours 21 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - Scarecrow of Oz (version 2)

The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and,...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 18 minutes Oz books

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2

Art, Design & Architecture

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...

MorganScorpion and 7 more 8 hours 24 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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War & Military

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F. Tennyson Jesse - Sword of Deborah

«The Sword of Deborah» contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during World War I. She writes: «I was glad to have seen all the different convoys I had, because...

MaryAnn 2 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Arthur Griffiths - Passenger from Calais

An army officer, and a mysterious lady with a maid and baby in tow, are the only passengers on the Engadine express from Calais. The lady is afraid that someone is following her. Who is she? And what is her strange...

Arie 5 hours 21 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Abbie Farwell Brown - In The Days of Giants

This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and pleasant, but winter is a terrible time of cold and gloom; where rocky...

Arup Sen and 6 more 5 hours 35 minutes

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Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

Historical Fiction

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Thomas Dixon, Jr. - Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era — The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel was the basis for the 1915 silent movie classic, «The Birth Of A Nation»....

Michele Fry 9 hours 28 minutes

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