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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexander Hunter - Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army from 1861 to 1865. The novel is noted for encapsulating most of...

Barry Eads 27 hours 48 minutes

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Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Mayne Reid - Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah!...

Barry Eads and 14 more 22 hours 35 minutes

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Romance

562

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman

This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the...

Cori Samuel and 13 more 19 hours 37 minutes

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Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

General Fiction

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of «exemplary» stories, this translated version from 1881 brings these stories to the English reader. Included in the collection are twelve stories...

Tim Ferreira and 13 more 18 hours 10 minutes

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Romance

517

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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Biography & Autobiography

578

Charles Ellms - Pirates Own Book

Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers.

JDV and 21 more 13 hours 20 minutes

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Performing Arts

490

P. T. Barnum - Humbugs of the World

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal...

Barry Eads and 20 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

589

Captain Charles Johnson - General History of the Pyrates

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. It's author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a...

Barry Eads and 10 more 12 hours 47 minutes

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Memoirs

506

Theodore Roosevelt - Through the Brazilian Wilderness

CM Slosson and 14 more 12 hours 33 minutes

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Historical Fiction

488

H. C. Bailey - Colonel Greatheart

This is a story of the English Civil War where a witching woman conquerors hearts and marks.

ink tree and 6 more 12 hours 6 minutes

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War & Military

570

John Richard Hale - Famous Sea Fights

I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I shall begin with the first sea-fight of which we have a detailed history—the...

Barry Eads and 16 more 11 hours 54 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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William Clark Russell - Frozen Pirate

Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years (Summary by P. Cunningham)

Patti Cunningham and 5 more 11 hours 39 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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