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Historical Fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter

The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter...

hefyd and 11 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Elizabeth Prentiss - Stepping Heavenward

Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mother is very much against their plans. But Katy’s life goes on through her...

Cagirlwithasoutherndrawl and 10 more 9 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

833

George Sand - Devil's Pool

George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women of her standing in France at the time and for her numerous romantic liaisons...

J. M. Smallheer 3 hours 35 minutes

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General

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Louisa May Alcott - Old-Fashioned Girl

Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws' and their urbanized, fashionable...

Jennette Selig 10 hours 13 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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David Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism...

Carl Manchester and 10 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Satire

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Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers consists of a sequence of...

Debra Lynn and 12 more 30 hours 38 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Children of the New Forest

The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house, Arnwood, is burned by Roundhead soldiers. However, they escape and are...

bryfee and 11 more 10 hours 56 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses

The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton....

Jeremy Pavier and 1 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Rudyard Kipling - Stalky & Co.

Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town, Westward Ho!, is not only unusual in having an exclamation mark, but also in...

Tim Bulkeley 7 hours 5 minutes

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Romance

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E. M. Forster - Room with a View

When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon her return to England, she is forced to choose between free-spirited George...

Kara Shallenberg 7 hours 45 minutes

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Children's Fiction

833

Richmal Crompton - More William

The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting with...

Kara Shallenberg 5 hours 20 minutes

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Perpetual Peace: A Philosophic Essay (Hastie Translation)

*Non-fiction

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Immanuel Kant - Perpetual Peace: A Philosophic Essay (Hastie Translation)

This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another...

D.E. Wittkower 2 hours 11 minutes

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