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William Makepeace Thackeray - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the...

mb 13 hours 49 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Robert E. Howard - Hour of the Dragon (version 2)

This is absolutely the best Conan novel ever written in my opinion. It follows Conan when at the peak of his power as king of Aquilonia, he is overthrown by dark, evil magic from Stygia and turned into a hunted...

Phil Chenevert 8 hours 50 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a...

Mike Pelton and 7 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Stella Fregelius

Following a shipwreck Stella is preparing to die but is unexpectedly rescued. A love triangle of an unusual sort develops where an inventor of the mobile phone, back in 1900, who is engaged, becomes involved with a...

Patrick79 13 hours 30 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Pansy - Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On

Old Mrs. Solomon Smith considers herself «nothing but an ignorant old woman» who didn't have the advantages others did when growing up. However, those around her know that she's actually full of biblical wisdom and...

TriciaG 8 hours 53 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Fergus Hume - Spider

Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be...

Don W. Jenkins 10 hours 7 minutes

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Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia

Art, Design & Architecture

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Giovanni Battista Belzoni - Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia

Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven ton bust of Ramesses II, the clearing of sand from...

David Wales 14 hours 58 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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William Booth - Purity of Heart

William Booth, who co-founded The Salvation Army with his wife Catherine in 1865, wrote several books on the subject of holiness. Purity of Heart, which was first published in 1902, is one of the most concise of these...

David Purdy 1 hour 35 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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George William Curtis - From the Easy Chair Vol. 3

The third volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts

War & Military

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Bruce Bairnsfather - From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts

This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's recuperation from injuries suffered in the Second Battle of Ypres and ends with...

DrPGould 4 hours 54 minutes

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War & Military

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John Howard Bertram Masterman - Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918

This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The author writes of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, who sought to impose...

Pamela Nagami 6 hours 48 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Mr. Prohack

Mr Prohack, an ordinary official in the Treasury and leading a hum-drum life, suddenly and unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money which, with a lucky investment, he turns into a fortune. This humorous book follows...

Simon Evers 12 hours 11 minutes

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