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Memoirs

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Donald Shaw - Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as «a man of education and worldly experience» and weighing «19 stone 13 lbs» (279 lbs), a stone...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

778

Lloyd Osbourne - Wrecker

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a...

Antony Brown and 9 more 14 hours 24 minutes

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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3)

Philosophy

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Patanjali - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3)

This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic text focuses on «the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man.» — Summary...

Maggie Russell 3 hours 45 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

762

Andrew Lang - Letters to Dead Authors

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke,...

Brian Mansi and 9 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Georgette Leblanc - Blue Bird for Children

One of the strongest pieces of imaginative writing for children that the past decade has produced and one of the most delicate and beautiful of all times, is «The Blue Bird,» by Maurice Maeterlinck, written as a play,...

Carina Pereira and 6 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study In Scarlet (version 5)

«A Study in Scarlet» is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from the viewpoint of Dr. John Watson and recounts his first experiences of meeting the...

Robert Dixon 3 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

783

Anna Katharine Green - Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock

A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence — until he decides to talk to the neighbors of the victim, a blind doctor and his beautiful wife… —...

Crln Yldz Ksr 2 hours 14 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

898

F. Anstey - Talking Horse And Other Stories

A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range from humorous and whimsical to haunting and thought-provoking. — Summary by...

Lynne T and 6 more 8 hours 2 minutes

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War & Military

810

Alec John Dawson - Somme Battle Stories

Stories of World War I warfare, published in 1916 in the midst of the war. (That's why names of persons and units are literally «blanked» out.) Alec John Dawson (1872 — 1951), generally known as A. J. Dawson...

David Wales 3 hours 3 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

886

William John Locke - Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. One day, he encounters a young girl in a London park who has escaped from a...

Simon Evers 8 hours 54 minutes

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Historical Fiction

854

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Armourer's Prentices

Set in the sixteenth century, two young boys are left orphans and are turned out of their home by their older brother, or, more particularly, his shrewish wife. John has taken over their father's position as verdurer,...

Lynne T and 6 more 11 hours 23 minutes

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Short Stories

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William Patten - International Short Stories Volume 2: English Stories

The second volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on 'English' short stories, although it includes writers from other parts of the British isles. It features pieces by William Thackeray, Charles Dickens,...

Tadhg and 10 more 13 hours 21 minutes

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