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Children's Fiction

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Unknown - Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1

This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a...

Maria Celano and 18 more 3 hours 6 minutes

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Reference

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Grenville Kleiser - Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of...

Betsie Bush and 45 more 16 hours

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche

Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him...

Gord Mackenzie 17 hours 12 minutes

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Drama

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William Shakespeare - King Henry IV, Part 1

King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II . As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingbroke) and Henry...

2 hours 50 minutes

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Dialogue Between a Methodist and a Churchman

Christianity - Commentary

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William Law - Dialogue Between a Methodist and a Churchman

William Law (1686-1761) was an Anglican priest, Christian mystic, and one of the most prominent, popular, and controversial theological writers of his time. Law revolutionized the way in which 18th century Anglicans...

1 hour 34 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jane Austen - Lady Susan

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan , which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady...

2 hours 27 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Moonstone

The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and...

Mike Gardom and 7 more 20 hours 9 minutes

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Family

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Understood Betsy (version 2)

Elizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet. When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill, poor little Elizabeth Ann is sent to live with the much-feared Putney...

Kymm Zuckert and 1 more 4 hours 43 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Philip Jose Farmer - Green Odyssey

Alan Green is a space traveler stranded on a barbaric planet who has been taken slave and made a consort to an insipid and smelly queen. His slave-wife, though beautiful and smart, nags him constantly. He’s given...

Mark Nelson 6 hours 6 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Daniel Defoe - Journal of the Plague Year

The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.

Denny Sayers 12 hours 5 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Elizabeth and 15 more 18 hours 59 minutes

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Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adventures on the way. (Alex Foster)

Alex Foster and 12 more 6 hours 33 minutes

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