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Thomas Gordon - Works of Tacitus, Vol. I

The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only books 1-5 of the Histories and 1-6 and 11-16 of the Annals survive), enough...

Jim Mowatt and 12 more 15 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York «Society», who spent much of her life in France. In this novel she tells the story of Undine Sprague, the thrice- (or more) married, upwardly...

Isosceles and 10 more 14 hours 59 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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Romance

518

Lyndon Orr - Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion

«Famous Affinities of History» is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx,...

James Christopher and 13 more 14 hours 57 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is...

Justin S Barrett and 26 more 14 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Maarten Maartens - God's fool

At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never really grows up. Years later, circumstances make him the richest man in town...

Anna Simon 14 hours 46 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls

Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an «epic poem in...

David Barnes and 14 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Epics

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Homer - Iliad

The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest...

Joshua B. Christensen and 16 more 14 hours 29 minutes

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

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Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: «National Delusions», «Peculiar Follies», and «Philosophical Delusions». The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics...

J. M. Smallheer and 12 more 14 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II

Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical...

Justin Brett and 10 more 14 hours 6 minutes The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Jeremy Bentham - Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation , a classic text in modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first published in 1789, focuses on the principle of utility and how this view of...

Jc Guan and 11 more 13 hours 56 minutes

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Christianity - Biographies

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Saint Augustine of Hippo - Confessions (Outler translation)

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes...

Mark Barnes and 9 more 13 hours 49 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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