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Romance

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Poor Wise Man

Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century America. The characters are compelling and representative of the various...

Celine Major 12 hours 29 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Turnpike House

A prolific writer of crime and detective stories Fergus Hume is known for his clever plots. The Turnpike House is another wonderful example of his many intriguing mysteries. EXCERPT: «Suddenly there was the cry of a...

Celine Major 7 hours 31 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Clock Struck One

Fergus Hume was a prolific writer of Victorian murder mysteries and The Clock Struck One is another great example of his inventive plots. Julian Edermont living in near seclusion for the last 20 years fearful of an...

Celine Major 6 hours 6 minutes

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Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters

Historical Fiction

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Susan Petigru King-Bowen - Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters

1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends for his daughter Lady Mabel Stewart presently in Scotland to join him in Elvas...

Celine Major 9 hours 22 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Richard Marsh - Interrupted Kiss

Clare awakens in the middle of the night with no idea why. Her husband is not in his bed and as she goes in search of him she runs into her cousin Elsie who's heard a terrified shout from Rupert. When Clare returns...

Celine Major 7 hours 14 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Linda Tressel

Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the odious and much older Peter Steinmarc as a lodger and plans that Linda should...

Simon Evers 6 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Fallen Leaves

Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is dominated by a number of women, all of them in some way a «fallen leaf», whom...

SteveMiller and 9 more 14 hours 19 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lost for Love

EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; men of professional standing, and their wives. He sought to win friends for...

Celine Major 15 hours 19 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Day Will Come

It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismisses her dreams until they come true. Who commited the murder? How would the...

Celine Major 16 hours 18 minutes

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London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Subtitled, «A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.» «The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves… their...

Gillian Hendrie 62 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fatal Three

Written by one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century The Fatal Three although not as sensational as some of her other novels serves up some very fascinating characters. It also raises some very interesting...

Celine Major 14 hours 15 minutes

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Romance

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Henry Gréville - Philomène's Marriages

'Philomène’s Marriages' is a story of French life, located in Normandy, and also in Paris, and is a translation from the French of a new work by the gifted and popular authoress, Henry Gréville, whose works have...

Celine Major 6 hours 59 minutes

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