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General Fiction

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Israel Zangwill - King of Schnorrers

Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of late 18th-century London. Manasseh is far from being a humble panhandler for,...

Adrian Praetzellis 4 hours 25 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens' death, and readers have often speculated what the ending might have been. The novel is named...

Alan Chant 12 hours 21 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Thomas Gordon - Works of Tacitus, Vol. I

The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only books 1-5 of the Histories and 1-6 and 11-16 of the Annals survive), enough...

Jim Mowatt and 12 more 15 hours 8 minutes

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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

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John Stuart Mill - Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill’s economic theory moved from free...

Gary Gilberd 5 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It...

Lee Ann Howlett and 10 more 14 hours 40 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Jules Verne - Round the Moon

Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel. It was later combined with...

Laurie Anne Walden and 6 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Fighting the Whales

A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction of a now-alien time, occupation, and culture, it's also a rousing adventure...

Lee Elliott 2 hours 9 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Algernon Blackwood - Camp of the Dog

A party of campers on a deserted Baltic island is terrorized by a huge wolf… or is it?

Charlie Blakemore 2 hours 52 minutes

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Romance

919

E. M. Forster - Howards End (version 2)

The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth's most prized personal...

Lucy Burgoyne and 12 more 12 hours 18 minutes

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Philosophy

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Liezi - Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure

At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved for them lodging and maintenance, and encouraged all who had any pretence to...

Chris Masterson 1 hour 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

944

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote - Vol. 2

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he...

Denny Sayers and 23 more 21 hours 52 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Karl Marx - Wage-Labour and Capital

Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central threories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists....

Carl Manchester 1 hour 42 minutes

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