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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Law and the Lady

Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family leading to disquiet for Valeria's own family and friends. Just a few days after the wedding, various incidents lead Valeria to...

Wiebke 13 hours 25 minutes

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Comedy

964

William Shakespeare - Measure For Measure

Generally considered one of Shakespeare's problem plays, Measure for Measure examines the ideas of sin and justice. Duke Vincentio turns Vienna's rule over to the corrupt Angelo, who sentences Claudio to death for...

2 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

887

Vasco de Lobeira - Amadis of Gaul

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was...

Leni and 14 more 29 hours 18 minutes

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Travel & Geography

766

Sir Henry W. Lucy - East by West, Vol. 1

East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during the parliamentary recess in 1883. Lucy was one of the most...

Ruth Golding 7 hours 52 minutes East by West

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Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

Detective Fiction

864

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

«In this early detective novel, the detective is Hilda Wade. She is a very capable nurse, but there is something mysterious about her from the moment she arrives at the hospital. Upon meeting her, Dr. Hubert...

Anna Simon and 1 more 10 hours 13 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

879

Wilkie Collins - Frozen Deep

The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and life-threatening circumstances. The end is as surprising and unexpected as...

Diana Majlinger 3 hours 6 minutes

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Action & Adventure Fiction

875

Herman Melville - Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee , and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which...

TriciaG 11 hours 31 minutes

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Detective Fiction

852

Donald McGibeny - 32 Caliber

A suspicious accident reveals itself to be a murder! Our story is narrated by a lawyer who turns detective in order to uncover the real murderer, and leads us on a chase through Bolshevik headquarters, country clubs,...

Dawn Larsen 4 hours 13 minutes

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Religion

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John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3

Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in...

Diana Majlinger and 17 more 24 hours 41 minutes Institutes of the Christian Religion

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*Non-fiction

976

Charles E. Jefferson - Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers

Charles Edward Jefferson was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York for 33 years. In Quiet Hints, published in 1901, he provided guidance to young preachers on what we would today call ministerial...

MaryAnn 3 hours 30 minutes

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War & Military

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Richard Harding Davis - Notes of a War Correspondent

Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by «A War Correspondent’s...

Barry Eads and 7 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

900

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Window at the White Cat

When a clumsy, well-meaning lawyer gets involved with a pair of delightful old maids and a beautiful girl, he must acquire some of the skills of his friends the detective and the newspaperman to solve the puzzle of...

Robert Keiper 6 hours 50 minutes

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