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History

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William Bradford - Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650

The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of early American history. His eyewitness account includes the stories of the...

David Leeson 11 hours 15 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Helen Rowland - Guide to Men

A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. Summary by Cori Samuel....

Cori Samuel 1 hour 34 minutes

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Romance

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Grant Allen - British Barbarians

After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become...

Ruth Golding 5 hours 2 minutes

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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Orange Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the...

Paul Vinson Brown and 21 more 9 hours 41 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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General Fiction

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Ouida - Dog of Flanders

«Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world.» So begins the poignant story of the two orphans who were to become inseparable companions. They were Nello, an orphaned youth, and Patrasche, the dog which he...

Roger Melin 1 hour 52 minutes

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General Fiction

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George du Maurier - Trilby

Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin...

Christian Al-Kadi and 7 more 11 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

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Max Brand - Seventh Man

The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the...

Robert Keiper 8 hours 4 minutes

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Romance

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Charlotte Lennox - Female Quixote Vol. 2

Second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his...

Jesse Noar and 7 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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R. Austin Freeman - Mystery of 31 New Inn

Jeffrey Blackmore suspiciously made two wills, both deceptively alike, but still, in a cunning way, completely different. John Thorndyke, equally cunning and smart, smells something fishy. With stylish cool and logic,...

BrandonM and 7 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Spoils of Poynton

The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda Vetch, when both of them find themselves guests in the tasteless house of...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 14 minutes

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History

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Hilaire Belloc - Europe and the Faith

The Catholic brings to history (when I say «history» in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in the confessional accuses himself of what he knows to be true and what other people...

Ray Clare 8 hours 11 minutes

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