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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Memoirs

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Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 46 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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John Overton Choules - Young Americans Abroad

It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with three teenaged students — James Robinson, George Vanderbuilt, and Weld French,...

Sibella Denton 8 hours 15 minutes

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Memoirs

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Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall - Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba

In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit with a long sojourn in Colorado, returning to England as the snows began to...

Sibella Denton 3 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

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Guy de Maupassant - Ball-of-Fat

The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, «Ball-of-Fat» (French title: Boule de Suif) is the touching story of an interrupted...

Michael Thomas Robinson 1 hour 51 minutes

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General Fiction

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Amy Levy - Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but unexeptional family. But without Reuben, a woman like Judith might have a bleak...

Adrian Praetzellis 4 hours 2 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Rudyard Kipling - American Notes

In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these American Notes offer an interesting...

Tim Bulkeley 2 hours 47 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Roger Melin and 9 more 3 hours 52 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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*Non-fiction

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United States Government - Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

Andrea Fiore and 22 more 1 hour 31 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Marie Belloc Lowndes - Lodger

«The story is about a Jack the Ripper-type murderer known only as „The Avenger“ in London, who has been killing young blonde women. Meanwhile, a mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for...

Lee Ann Howlett 7 hours 42 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Harold W. Fairbanks - Western United States

«In preparation of this book the author has had in mind the needs of the upper grammar grades. The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic...

Laura Caldwell 6 hours 51 minutes

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Religion

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Saint Augustine of Hippo - City of God

Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric their king, the worshippers of false gods, or pagans, as we commonly call them, made an attempt to attribute this calamity to the Christian religion, and...

Darren L. Slider 40 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Elusive Pimpernel

First Published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Karen Savage 7 hours 30 minutes

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