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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Bonhôte - Bungay Castle: A Novel

Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family at Bungay Castle in Suffolk. Two young members of the family, Roseline and Edwin,...

Patti Cunningham 9 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Sanctuary

Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to...

Jacquerie 3 hours 7 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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George Eliot - Romola

George Eliot's own favorite among her novels, this novel tells the story of Romola, the intelligent daughter of a blind scholar, who is falling in love with a man who is going to change her life and the politics of...

Sandra G and 15 more 23 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Gambler

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than...

Jason Ingolfsland and 1 more 6 hours 1 minute

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War and Peace, Book 16: First Epilogue 1813-1820

Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 16: First Epilogue 1813-1820

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Vilayvanh and 6 more 2 hours 31 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Humorous Fiction

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Noah Lott - Silly Syclopedia

A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for HILARIOUS PURPOSES ONLY Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things by Noah Lott (an...

Ezwa and 6 more 1 hour 53 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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F. Tennyson Jesse - Milky Way

The Milky Way — F. Tennyson Jesse's first novel — began life as a 1913 magazine serial called The Adventures of Viv. In it, poor-but-plucky Cornish painter/model Vivian Lovel recounts events of her twenty-first year:...

Grant Hurlock 11 hours 26 minutes

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Romance

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Payne Erskine - Mountain Girl

A delightful love-story, genuinely American in feeling and treatment. The story is stirring, the heroine is ideal. (Summary by the Chicago Tribune, from time of publishing)

MaryAnn and 8 more 12 hours 51 minutes

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Comedy

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George Bernard Shaw - Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the...

2 hours 28 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius,...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Elsie Spicer Eells - Fairy Tales from Brazil

This book, subtitled «How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore», is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni)

Leni and 7 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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History

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Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 2

Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the Jews is a history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus'...

Nicole Kay and 12 more 12 hours 43 minutes The Antiquities of the Jews

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