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General Fiction

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Harriet Martineau - Deerbrook

A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero. Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional...

Arielle Lipshaw and 6 more 22 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Godwin - Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary....

Bev J Stevens 16 hours 53 minutes

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Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Short Stories

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme of which is New Hampshire's White Mountains. Consists of: The Great Stone Face , written in 1850 and revolves around the 'Old Man of the...

Roger Melin 2 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

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John Milton - Samson Agonistes

“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time,...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 37 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

General Fiction

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759,...

Martin Geeson and 3 more 5 hours 15 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Oliver Lodge - Pioneers of Science

This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of...

Availle and 12 more 11 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

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Richard Meeker - Better Angel

In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. This novel is regarded as «the first American...

Greg W. 8 hours

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Pupil

Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an American couple living in Europe in a style not quite matched by their income. Mr....

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 52 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 5

This is book 5 of 5. — An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Karen Mason and 15 more 13 hours 15 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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General Fiction

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Upton Sinclair - Moneychangers

A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague witnesses the manipulation and upset of the stock market by high financier Dan...

Margaret Espaillat 6 hours 28 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Joseph Munk - Arizona Sketches

An introduction to Arizona from approximately a century ago. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 4 hours 10 minutes

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Religion

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Soren Kierkegaard, Various Readings

The writings listed here represent books about Soren Kierkegaard. A fragment of his work, On the Dedication to «That Single Individual», has made it to the public domain. Who was Soren Kierkegaard? He was a Danish...

Craig Campbell 4 hours 27 minutes

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