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Plays

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Richard Steele - Funeral: or Grief A-La-Mode

The Funeral: or, Grief à-la-Mode, a Comedy, was written in the summer of 1701, and given to Christopher Rich, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in October. Soon afterwards it was acted, and it was published by Jacob...

2 hours 54 minutes

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Plays

821

Arthur Wing Pinero - Gay Lord Quex

Lord Quex, after a life of philandering, has decided to reform and marry. But he is not believed, particularly by the guardian of his intended. The play shows the difficulties in shaking a discreditable past — and how...

3 hours 31 minutes

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Literary Fiction

889

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Asphodel

Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while… Forget that her...

Jim Locke and 3 more 19 hours 50 minutes

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Christianity - Other

889

Asa Gray - Natural Science and Religion

Asa Gray was a highly-regarded botanist at Harvard University and a friend and collaborator of Charles Darwin. As a Christian, Gray was concerned with the disconnect developing through the nineteenth century between...

Barry Ganong 2 hours 1 minute

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Epics

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Hermann and Dorothea

There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the «Hermann and Dorothea» of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the...

Foon 2 hours 29 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - K.

«K» is the initial of the mysterious lodger without a first name who rents a room from Sidney to escape his past. Sidney herself refuses the proposals of Joe in order to become a nurse and do useful work in the...

Beth Thomas and 16 more 9 hours 51 minutes

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Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian

War & Military

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William Wolfe Capes - Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian

William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire, from the aftermath of the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E. to the...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 39 minutes

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Family Life

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Alice Calhoun Haines - Luck of the Dudley Grahams

The Luck of the Dudley Grahams is the story of the four Graham children and their recently widowed mother, trying to make ends meet by taking boarders into their somewhat eccentric home, as told by 17-year-old...

Colleen McMahon 4 hours 27 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

998

Walter Alden Dyer - Dogs Of Boytown

This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information about different breeds of dogs. The author obviously likes both boys and dogs. (...

David Wales 6 hours 15 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Doctor Izard

The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one of them. The story then shifts to another town where, years earlier, Polly...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 1 minute

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Published 1900 onward

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Robert Barr - Sword Maker

Times are hard in Frankfort. Defeat in war, weak leadership, trade blockades and a starving population lead to a restive and unhappy citizenry. The one thing Frankfort does have is the best three sword-makers in the...

Roman Noble and 10 more 11 hours 44 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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G. K. Chesterton - Ballad of the White Horse (Version 3)

This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As...

Robin Lamb 1 hour 42 minutes

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