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Humorous Fiction

967

Anonymous - Sketches Of The Fair Sex

Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress....

Colman Shew and 14 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

833

Carley Dawson - Mr. Wicker's Window (Version 2)

When Christopher Mason walked into Mr. Wicker's antique shop, he had no idea he would soon be embarking on a marvellous journey to China to find a wonderful tree made of jewels. He had no idea that Mr. Wicker was a...

Arthur Piantadosi 5 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

753

Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

928

Jules Verne - Off on a Comet

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form...

Patrick Wells and 14 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

876

George Gissing - In the Year of Jubilee

The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the harsh and disreputable conditions of lower-middle class life at the end of the...

skoval 15 hours

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Fantastic Fiction

884

Abraham Merritt - Moon Pool

Dr. David Throckmartin’s scientific expedition to the South Sea Islands discovers among ancient ruins a portal into Muria, an unknown underground world. After the disappearance of Throckmartin, his wife and two...

Mark Nelson 12 hours 3 minutes

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Science Fiction

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E. E. Smith - Spacehounds of IPC

When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner “IPV Arcturus” took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of...

Mark Nelson 9 hours 42 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

828

T. S. Arthur - Off-Hand Sketches

The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at the expense of humanity, good feeling, or virtue. Many of the incidents...

TriciaG and 9 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

806

Selma Lagerlöf - Treasure

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Treasure (Herr...

Lars Rolander 2 hours 41 minutes

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Christianity - Other

885

Saint Teresa of Avila - Way of Perfection

El Camino de Perfección (trans.: The Way of Perfection) is a method for making progress in the contemplative life written by St. Teresa of Ávila for the sisters of her reformed convent of the Carmelite Order...

Ann Boulais 7 hours 13 minutes St. Teresa of Avila

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*Non-fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Slavery of Our Times

This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so much, is related to economic and political life. (Summary by Aylmer Maude,...

Luke Meier and 7 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Poetry

899

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Selected Poems

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of Victorian England. Members of a highly cultured Italian immigrant family,...

Leonard Wilson 1 hour 48 minutes

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