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Sir Isaac Newton - Opticks

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 — 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form...

Availle and 10 more 12 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though...

Nicholas Clifford 21 hours 56 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Humorous Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers (Version 2)

A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent leader, Mr. Pickwick. Join him and his friends, Winkle, Snodgrass, and...

Debra Lynn 28 hours 4 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, «The Life and Death of a Man of Character». It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of...

Debra Lynn 11 hours 39 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls

Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an «epic poem in...

David Barnes and 14 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - No Thoroughfare

Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them...

Alan Chant 5 hours 56 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Warden

Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and...

Andy Minter and 6 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

In this children's classic, a girl named Alice follows falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm full of talking creatures. She attends a never-ending tea party and plays croquet at the court of the...

Kristen McQuillin and 9 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the...

Cynthia Lyons 43 hours 30 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Letters of Two Brides

Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel. The two brides are Louise de Chaulieu (Madame Gaston) and Renée de Maucombe (Madame l'Estorade). The women became friends during their education at a convent and upon...

Kara Shallenberg and 5 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers , as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of...

Kristin LeMoine and 49 more 55 hours 18 minutes

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Comedy

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Lechmere Worrall - Ann

Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex better and thereby characterize them better in his next book. While he attempts...

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