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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Action & Adventure Fiction

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E. W. Hornung - Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also published as The Black Mask ) is the second collection of stories in the Raffles series. After the dark turn of events at the end of The Gift of the...

Kristin Hughes 5 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Fiction

528

Alfred John Church - Iliad for Boys and Girls

Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a style so that younger readers may follow the story. The Iliad for Boys and...

Lizzie Driver 4 hours 23 minutes

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Satire

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Charles Dickens - Hard Times

Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and...

Kirsten Ferreri and 9 more 10 hours 54 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Timaeus

«Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down...

Leni and 6 more 7 hours 51 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental children's novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885. It was a runaway hit for the magazine and was...

Mary Anderson and 5 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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General Fiction

591

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 1

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Clarica and 12 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1856-1948

Law

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United States Supreme Court - Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1856-1948

Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1856 and 1948.

Kelli Robinson 7 hours 42 minutes

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God's Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi

Children's Fiction

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Sophie Jewett - God's Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi

Francis, a young Italian boy, is a merchant's son who is enthralled by the troubadour songs and tales of knights that his father brings back from his travels. He decides to become a knight, but after seeing the poor...

Sean McKinley 2 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

490

H. Rider Haggard - Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Quaterman and his two good friends from KSM have tired of their dull and...

John Nicholson 13 hours 7 minutes

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Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper

Science Fiction

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H. Beam Piper - Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper

Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper.

Mark Nelson 5 hours 15 minutes

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Short Stories

467

Robert Barr - Triumphs of Eugene Valmont

Short stories by a colleague of Jerome K. Jerome, and friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Barr probably wrote the first parody of Sherlock Holmes (included in this collection). He co-edited «The Idler» with Jerome....

Czechchris 9 hours 26 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Master and Man

A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town quickly 'for business'. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but...

Brooks Jensen 2 hours 23 minutes

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