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Family

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Martha Finley - Mildred Keith

Mildred Keith has a good life in Lansdale, Ohio — family, friends and school keep her happy and busy. But when her parents announce they're all moving to Indiana, Mildred's faith is tested beyond anything she could...

Rachel 5 hours 51 minutes

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Satire

861

Aristophanes - Acharnians (Billson Translation)

Loaded with cryptic, nearly indecipherable inside jokes and double entendres, this early comedy of Aristophanes has a simple, anti-war premise that resounds down the centuries. On flimsy pretexts, greedy politicians...

Expatriate 1 hour 35 minutes

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Tragedy

682

Thomas Dekker - Witch of Edmonton

Mother Elizabeth Sawyer is a poor, lonely, and unfairly ostracized old woman with nothing left to lose. Frank is a poor farmer who intends to marry his beloved Winnifred, who is pregnant with his child, but is...

2 hours 24 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

837

Arthur Griffiths - Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1

Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' — the warriors against crime...

Lynne T and 6 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Published 1900 onward

787

Honoré de Balzac - Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness , is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginning with a flirtatious conversation at a masked ball, Balzac introduces his two...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 46 minutes

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Psychology

724

Wallace E. Baker - Diary of a Suicide

“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City. Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about to commit suicide. My only object is that it may help…to ease the way for...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 16 minutes

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Bibles

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Darby Bible - Bible (DBY) NT 05: Acts

The Darby Bible consists of a translation of the New Testament by John Nelson Darby, originally published in 1867, and a translation of the Old Testament, included in later editions of the text, completed by Darby's...

Hultstrand 3 hours 6 minutes Bible (Darby Version)

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Published 1800 -1900

992

Walter Besant - Blind Love

Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besant. The blind love in the title refers to the love of Iris, a woman of...

Tony Foster and 17 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals' famous painting invites you to wonder just what mischievousness hides behind that face. In this novel, inspired by the painting, Baroness Orczy recounts...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 13 hours 39 minutes

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Tragedy

766

Euripides - Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation)

Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the Oresteia, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first...

Expatriate 1 hour 44 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

800

Frances Alice Forbes - Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491– 1556) was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was its first Superior General....

Phil Chenevert and 4 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Abandoned

Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within the previous three...

Masch1 and 13 more 7 hours 1 minute

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