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Vasco de Lobeira - Amadis of Gaul

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was...

Leni and 14 more 29 hours 18 minutes

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Romance

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Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn the Irish Member

Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irishman who becomes a member of the English parliament. Trollope aspired to...

Laura Koskinen and 12 more 27 hours 2 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III

This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biography being originally published by James Boswell, and then edited...

Brendan Stallard and 11 more 25 hours 58 minutes The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After

Let's continue the D'Artagnan Romances that we've already started with The Three Musketeers.

Esther and 23 more 25 hours 45 minutes

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Business & Economics

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J. Laurence Laughlin - Principles of Political Economy

The Principles of Political Economy , first published in 1848, was one of the most important texts on the subject of economy at that time. It is broken up into five books; Production, Distribution, Exchange,...

Aaron Rivera and 19 more 25 hours 2 minutes

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Erotica

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Giacomo Casanova - Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1

This is the first of five volumes. — Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats,...

icyjumbo and 15 more 24 hours 55 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charlotte Mary Yonge - Heir of Redclyffe

The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) was the first of Charlotte M. Yonge's bestselling romantic novels. Its religious tone derives from the High Church background of her family and from her friendship with a leading figure in...

skoval and 8 more 24 hours 54 minutes

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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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Health & Fitness

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Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...

MorganScorpion and 11 more 24 hours 21 minutes The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife

This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before...

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Historical Fiction

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Henryk Sienkiewicz - Deluge Volume 1

The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as «the Trilogy,» having been preceded by...

Piotr Nater and 10 more 23 hours 56 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous...

Nerijus and 13 more 23 hours 26 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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