Ana Simão

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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers , as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of...

Kristin LeMoine and 49 more 55 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charlotte Turner Smith - Old Manor House

The proud, cruel and arrogant Mrs. Rayland never married. Therefore, «Rayland Hall», the old Manor House of the title, had to pass to their heir, Somerive, whom they never treated kindly. According to the British laws...

Elaine Webb and 3 more 24 hours 54 minutes

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Family Life

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Eleanor H. Porter - Miss Billy Married

At the opening to this second sequel to Miss Billy (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, Miss Billy Married), we find Bertram and Billy finally at the altar. Will wedded bliss ensue and are the patter of little feet on...

Katine and 5 more 8 hours 34 minutes Miss Billy Series

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Essays

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays book 1

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He...

Martin Geeson and 17 more 17 hours 5 minutes Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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General Fiction

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Mary Jane Holmes - Tempest and Sunshine

Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of two sisters, as different as night and day; blonde Fanny and dark haired...

jedopi and 5 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Georg Ebers - Arachne

Ledscha, living in ancient Egypt, has lost her betrothed and all hope of love. But the gods see otherwise. She now loves a Greek sculptor, who only wanted her for a model, but even that will not happen. She has...

Nathalie J. and 10 more 13 hours 18 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Payne Erskine - Eye of Dread

The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent away its young men, among them Peter Junior and Richard Kildene. When they leave, Betty Ballard is but a child, but by the time the war has...

Chelsea Baker and 10 more 14 hours 58 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Grace Livingston Hill - Cloudy Jewel

Julia Cloud, the oldest--and most responsible--child of her family, helped raise her four siblings due to their mother's long-time illness and father's death. After faithfully nursing two ill brothers (who died), she...

Joy Easton and 8 more 9 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Armadale

The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a...

David Barnes and 19 more 31 hours 38 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Marion Zimmer Bradley - Colors of Space

Bart Steele, Space Academy graduate, is on his way home to his father's business — he runs a fleet of spaceships for interstellar travel. The secret for fast interstellar travel though is still tightly kept by the...

Ana Simão and 4 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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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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Animals & Nature

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Andrew Lang - Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as...

Maria Falin and 18 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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