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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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fenton's Quest

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country woman far below his station. He decides to marry her anyway. But is she all...

Anna Simon and 5 more 16 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Manville Fenn - Peril Finders

In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are failing. A prospector arrives and tells stories of ancient cities where there...

Elaine Webb and 9 more 16 hours 21 minutes

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Detective Fiction

410

Louis Joseph Vance - Black Bag

Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified favor, but Kirkwood doesn''t trust him and sends him away. That night, he sees...

William Tomcho and 4 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Charles Dickens - Uncommercial Traveller

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles...

Jonathan Henry and 18 more 15 hours 37 minutes

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Self-Help

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Morals (Moralia), Book 1

The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is a collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches that give an insight into...

Martin Geeson and 11 more 22 hours 14 minutes

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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2

Family & Relationships

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Havelock Ellis - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2

The second of six volumes, this volume covers in extensive detail the topic of «Sexual Inversion», or homosexuality to give it a more current name. Written as an anthropological and psychological study from the point...

John Fricker and 6 more 16 hours 15 minutes

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Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Essays & Short Works

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William Hazlitt - Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt. The book contains some of Hazlitt's more famous essays...

Bob Gonzalez and 16 more 20 hours 30 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Sintram and His Companions

Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil....

Anna Simon and 4 more 4 hours 2 minutes

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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edgar Thurston - Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin.(Summary by Edgar Thurston)

ashleighjane and 5 more 9 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Mysterious Island (version 2)

The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of...

Alisson Veldhuis and 13 more 23 hours 23 minutes

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War & Military

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Pierre Loti - War

Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a small collection of letters and diary entries that describe his views and...

Becky Cook and 6 more 5 hours 23 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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