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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1

Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of Clarissa, is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent years and is now eager to become part of the aristocracy by acquiring...

Bob Gilham and 5 more 12 hours 14 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai») is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Jc Guan and 8 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Undine

Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into...

Pete Williams Pittsburgh PA 3 hours 8 minutes

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Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Children's Fiction

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James Otis - Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

James Otis wrote a series of books depicting life in the new colonies, written from a child's point of view. Ruth of Boston is the story of 12 year old Ruth, coming from London to live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony....

Laura Caldwell 3 hours 7 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken presidents in American history. Not only are we privy to the formation of...

Marfschen and 15 more 21 hours 51 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy...

Adrian Praetzellis 17 hours 52 minutes

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School

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Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s. Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842. The novel was...

icyjumbo 10 hours 10 minutes

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Memoirs

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Edmund Gosse - Father and Son

Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled «a study of two temperaments.» The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His...

Ed Meade and 2 more 8 hours 58 minutes

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Arts

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Agnes Ethel Conway - Book of Art for Young People

This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter focuses on a great painting, reproduced in color in the original text. The authors explain the story behind the paintings, as well...

Kara Shallenberg 4 hours 12 minutes

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Weymouth New Testament

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Weymouth New Testament - Bible (WNT) NT 01: Matthew

Richard Francis Weymouth was born on October 26, 1822 near Plymouth Dock, now known as Devonport, near Plymouth, Devonshire, in England. Dr. Weymouth was a Bible scholar and a philologist (a student of the origins of...

Mark Penfold 2 hours 29 minutes Bible (Weymouth New Testament)

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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John Henry Haaren - Famous Men of Greece

Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. (Summary by Laura...

Ed Meade and 9 more 4 hours 29 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Stephen King-Hall - Diary of a U-boat Commander

Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman — supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of class and any infringement on his place. He thinks he is handsome, has a...

Mark F. Smith 5 hours 22 minutes

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