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60 books
Fantastic Fiction
1.1K
Rudolf Erich Raspe - Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his...
4 hours 45 minutes
Detective Fiction
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Anna Katharine Green - Woman in the Alcove
«I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate.» Thus begins...
6 hours 45 minutes
Epistolary Fiction
1.1K
Samuel Richardson - Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
«Now first published in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has its Foundation in Truth and Nature; and at the same time that it...
22 hours 10 minutes
Animals & Nature
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Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (version 3)
These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite «why» and «how» questions. With their generous sprinkling of nonsense words as well as a delightfully rhythmic storytelling...
3 hours 14 minutes
