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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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E. W. Hornung - Amateur Cracksman

«I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial billet, when excitement, romance, danger and a decent living were all going begging...

Kristin Hughes 5 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the...

Kristin LeMoine and 26 more 24 hours 50 minutes

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Poetry

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Mary E. Burt - Poems Every Child Should Know

This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are...

Kara Shallenberg 8 hours 8 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists...

Mary Anderson and 14 more 27 hours 16 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting...

Alex Foster and 12 more 11 hours

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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Action & Adventure Fiction

580

Edgar Allan Poe - Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called...

Oscar Goff and 11 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Romance

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Charlotte Brontë - Villette

After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against an overwhelming sense of desolation. Meeting a charming doctor and a strict,...

Chip and 17 more 20 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

580

Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim

A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young «simple and sensitive character» who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea — and of his expiation of that sin against his own...

Stewart Wills 14 hours 25 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

Children's Fiction

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William Allan Neilson - Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of...

Robin Cotter and 31 more 14 hours 30 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure … and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters — Mole, Rat, and Toad — generally lead upbeat and happy...

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Laura Lee Hope - Story of a Stuffed Elephant

The Story of a Stuffed Elephant is… well, the story of a Stuffed Elephant and the little boy who owns him, and his sister, and all their adventures. A delightful children's book by the author of The Bobbsey Twins...

vlooi 2 hours 9 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Oscar Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both young ladies believe...

2 hours 18 minutes

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