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Science Fiction

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Fletcher Pratt - Blue Star

The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished, resulting in a modern...

Mark Nelson and 1 more 9 hours 44 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Lester del Rey - Badge of Infamy (version 2)

Set in the early 22nd century: Dr. Daniel Feldman, stripped of rank and status and named pariah for violating Medical Lobby rules, stows away on a spaceship and flees to Mars Colony. There, while essentially...

Thomas Rose 3 hours 24 minutes

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Satire

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William Dean Howells - Traveller from Altruria

Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor...

Foon and 4 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2)

Single author

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Andrew Barton Paterson - Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2)

The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely...

Arrowhead Aussie 2 hours 33 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Oscar Wilde - Ideal Husband (version 2)

The «Ideal Husband» of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a crime, never had a «past» and never bowed to corruption or influence, or so she thinks…...

3 hours 12 minutes

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Sagas

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R. Eivind - Finnish Legends

One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them «all the stories...

Sonia and 6 more 4 hours 35 minutes

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Science

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Jean-Henri Fabre - Insect Adventures

This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for children. It's made up of first-person narratives, and using his exceptional...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 12 more 5 hours 52 minutes

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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (version 2)

Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (version 2)

Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned and moves in with her Uncle...

Lynne T 17 hours 56 minutes

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Poetry

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Sestinas

The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlights some of the varied ways the form has been used and adapted. — Summary by...

Peter Tucker and 1 more 4 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

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Frances Milton Trollope - Widow Barnaby

The vain, flirtatious and presumptuous husband hunting Mrs. Barnaby delves into high-class society of which she knows very little leading to some rather awkward and moments and ridiculous mistakes. Add the love and...

Celine Major 17 hours 44 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Robert Hugh Benson - By What Authority?

Two wealthy families are neighbors in Elizabethan England; one is staunchly Catholic and the other is devoutly Protestant. The attractive young scions of the families are drawn to each other in friendship and love,...

Carol Pelster 23 hours 13 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Aleksandr Kuprin - Slav Soul and Other Stories

Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling for his stories about people who are often «neurotic...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 53 minutes

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