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General Fiction

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Best Russian Short Stories

In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of...

greatbasinrain and 13 more 10 hours 33 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 034

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

John Feaster and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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William Clark Russell - Frozen Pirate

Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years (Summary by P. Cunningham)

Patti Cunningham and 5 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

War & Military

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Winston S. Churchill - River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum,...

Mark F. Smith 14 hours 14 minutes

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Cooking

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Joe Tilden - Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures

Major Joseph Tilden was in his time one of the most famous Bohemians and epicureans of the Pacific Coast. Ever since his death his many friends have been trying to learn the culinary secrets which made a repast of...

Clarica 1 hour 34 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Beer - Fair Rewards

«The Fair Rewards» by Thomas Beer... is a really distiguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sophistication and personality, intermingled with a truly vivid show of imagination. It even...

Greg W. 6 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms

A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight. To quote the author «though presented in the guise of fiction, this chronicle of the Marston family...

Graeme Dunlop and 11 more 19 hours 47 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Zeppelin's Passenger

The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional “backwater” area in England with no apparent military value. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents...

Tom Weiss 6 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Golden Snare

With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his...

Roger Melin 6 hours 22 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known...

JuliaY and 9 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane...

Elizabeth Klett 11 hours 9 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Those Extraordinary Twins

«Those Extraordinary Twins» was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's «The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson». As Twain explains, he extricated «Twins» from «Pudd'nhead» when he...

John Greenman 2 hours 14 minutes

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