Anna Simon

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Fate of Fenella

One book, twenty-four authors… Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine of a sensational Victorian novel which continually passes from one writer's cliffhanger to another's resolution. Fenella, with...

Patti Cunningham and 12 more 7 hours 23 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Lawrence L. Lynch - Last Stroke

Written by Chicago socialite, Emma Murdock Van Deventer, under the nom de plume of Lawrence L. Lynch, this detective story opens with the mysterious disappearance of schoolmaster, Mr. Brierly. The under-teacher and...

Philippe and 8 more 7 hours 20 minutes

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Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

Single Author Collections

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

This is a collection of short stories focussing on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons in the course of their work. The volume is named «Round the Red Lamp» as a reference to the red lamps...

Peter John Keeble and 9 more 7 hours 20 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Rabindranath Tagore - Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the...

Accent and 4 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Le Queux - Stolen Souls

This is a collection of 14 of William le Queux' best mystery stories. (Summary by Carolin)

bala and 10 more 7 hours 11 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Wyndham Martyn - Secret of the Silver Car

Before he went to join the Armed Forces in World War I France, Anthony Trent had a successfull secret 'career' as a master criminal in the USA, never caught by the police (see 'Anthony Trent, Master Criminal' ). The...

Anna Simon 7 hours 10 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Herbert George Jenkins - Rain-Girl

Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he sells all his possessions (except his books), and sets off on a tramp...

Anna Simon 7 hours 5 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Edgar Wallace - Crimson Circle

The Crimson Circle gang spreads fear by extortion and murder. Its members range from rich, powerful bankers to petty criminals, and none of them know each other. A beautiful young woman named Thalia Drummond appears...

Anna Simon 7 hours 3 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

Jacob Abbott - Peter the Great

There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign...

Russ Lemker and 5 more 7 hours 2 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Henri Poincaré - Science and Hypothesis

Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental...

Carl Manchester and 9 more 7 hours 2 minutes

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Antiquity

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Herodotus - Herodotus' Histories Vol 3

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek...

Rachel Klippenstein and 5 more 7 hours 1 minute

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Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East, volume 1

Exploration

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Rustichello da Pisa - Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East, volume 1

«Books of the Marvels of the World» or «Description of the World» (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed «Il Milione» («The Million») or «Oriente Poliano», but commonly called «The Travels of Marco Polo», is a...

Leni and 9 more 6 hours 55 minutes

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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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