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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to...

Gillian Hendrie and 14 more 26 hours 47 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Cynthia Wakeham's Money

A young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar. The lawyer soon finds that his search for the heirs...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 46 minutes

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Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls

Poetry

893

Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls

This collection of poems, selected by Sara Teasdale, a talented poet in her own right, is made to appeal to children, both girls and boys. They are not poems about children, but for children. Neither does this mean...

BettyB and 16 more 3 hours 27 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

764

Herbert George Jenkins - Night Club

This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It was Bindle who conceived the idea of forming ”The Night Club”, where people...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

785

Robert Barr - Chicago Princess

After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the end of his wits and in some debt. His only chance is to take the post as...

Judy Guinan and 6 more 7 hours 22 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

856

William Clark Russell - Death Ship

William Clark Russell is well-known for his maritime stories, for which he could draw upon his own experiences as a sailor in the British Navy. This is one of the finest examples of his maritime ghost stories....

saloni and 5 more 12 hours 36 minutes

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Family Life

803

Christmas Miscellany

A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 3 minutes

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General Fiction

741

Henry Seton Merriman - Grey Lady

A tale of romance, greed, blackmail, secrets, Spain and ships. Loss and intrigue too as we follow twin brothers along their life paths. Summary by Sandra

Sandra Cullum 8 hours 22 minutes

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Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation)

Tragedy

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Henrik Ibsen - Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation)

Halvard Solness is a master architect who has ruthlessly forged a preëminent career without regard for the feelings of those around him. In spite of this unscrupulous path of life, his conscience is still painfully...

Expatriate 2 hours 57 minutes

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Historical Fiction

937

Honoré de Balzac - Catherine De' Medici

The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in part through the use of fiction. 'Catherine de Medici' is one such 'study',...

Edmund Bloxam 11 hours 2 minutes

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Short Stories

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Tudor Jenks - Imaginotions - Truthless Tales

This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are not primarily aimed at children. The stories contain excellent satire, and are...

Dan Gurzynski and 11 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

856

Mary Louisa Molesworth - Uncanny Tales

Mrs. Molesworth was during her time best known for her many children's books. It is not so well known that she also wrote some uncanny tales, which are probably best enjoyed by people a little above the age-group for...

OCTL7 and 4 more 4 hours 52 minutes

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