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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Jules Verne - In Search of the Castaways

The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland...

Sibella Denton and 18 more 17 hours 2 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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Horace Walpole - Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th...

Great Plains 3 hours 58 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass...

Perry Clayton and 12 more 3 hours 54 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Young's Literal Translation

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Young's Literal Translation - Bible (YLT) 23: Isaiah

Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical...

Mark Penfold 3 hours 36 minutes Bible (Youngs Literal Translation)

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Bunyan - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Grace Abounding is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan, who also penned Pilgrim’s Progress, perhaps one of the most significant pieces of Christian literature, second only to the Bible. Grace Abounding follows...

Stephen Escalera 3 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

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Garrett P. Serviss - Edison's Conquest of Mars

Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction novels published in the nineteenth century. Although science fiction was not at the time thought of as a distinct literary genre, it...

Roger Melin and 5 more 7 hours 4 minutes

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General Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in...

Arielle Lipshaw and 10 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

Biography & Autobiography

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of...

Graham Redman and 5 more 8 hours 43 minutes Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

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*Non-fiction

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John Henry Haaren - Famous Men of Modern Times

Famous Men of Modern Times 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 Caldwell and 6 more 5 hours 42 minutes

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Westerns

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Max Brand - Ronicky Doone

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), is best known today for his western fiction. Faust was born in Seattle, Washington and at an early age moved with his parents to the San Joaquin Valley in California where he...

Rowdy Delaney 5 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout

Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially-designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not...

Tom Weiss 4 hours 47 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Political Science

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Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (Books III and IV)

In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nature of a Christian commonwealth. Book 3 begins with a wealth of biblical...

Carl Manchester and 7 more 10 hours 54 minutes

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