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Historical Fiction

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William Carleton - Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCarson)

James E. Carson 16 hours 22 minutes

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Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 version)

Tragedy

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Christopher Marlowe - Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 version)

The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for...

2 hours 18 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Whittaker - Origins of Christianity

The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christiaan van Manen (1842-1905) was a Dutch theologian. The vast majority of van...

JoeD 8 hours 19 minutes

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Children's Fiction

879

Jean Ingelow - Mopsa The Fairy

Jean Ingelow (1820 – 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the first female Poet Laureate when he died in 1892. Mopsa the...

NoelBadrian 4 hours 30 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

868

F. Anstey - In Brief Authority

Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough...

Anna Simon 11 hours 13 minutes

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Children's Fiction

868

Rebecca Sophia Clarke - Little Prudy

I am going to tell you something about a little girl who was always saying and doing funny things, and very often getting into trouble. Her name was Prudy Parlin, and she and her sister Susy, three years older, lived...

Snapdragon and 1 more 2 hours 8 minutes

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Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes

Children's Fiction

891

Daṇḍin - Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes

This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated by the men themselves. These narratives are replete with accounts of...

sid 5 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

960

Thomas Hardy - Hand of Ethelberta

Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her father-in-law, Lord Petherwin, died...

Simon Evers 13 hours 46 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Olive Beaupre Miller - In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume...

Snapdragon and 37 more 7 hours 15 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Westerns

880

Owen Wister - Lin McLean

Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 8 hours 33 minutes

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Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Pádraic Colum - Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus,...

Elizabeth Klett and 8 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Modern

891

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of Life

This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. The Conduct of Life ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life, but...

Daniel Christopher June and 1 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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