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Romance

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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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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out...

Neeru Iyer and 11 more 10 hours 17 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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A. A. Milne - Once on a Time

When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle during breakfast provokes a series of incidents which escalate into war....

Julie Bynum and 8 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Miles J. Breuer - Astounding Stories 09, September 1930

This is a collection of short science fiction stories by various writers, circa 1930. Writers include Paul Ernst, Miles Breuer, Ray Cummings, Sewell Wright, and others. Harry Bates, Editor (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Miriam Esther Goldman and 6 more 8 hours 21 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Humorous Fiction

William Makepeace Thackeray - Book of Snobs

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence—I show that the...

Julie VW and 19 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Historical Fiction

960

Howard Pyle - Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Swashbuckling tales of legendary pirates, buccaneers, and marooners, terrors of the Spanish Main.(Summary by Epistomolus)

Epistomolus and 4 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Andrew Lang - Arabian Nights Entertainments

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in the West from the...

Neeru Iyer and 15 more 10 hours 34 minutes

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Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide

Memoirs

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Col. William F. Cody - Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide

The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects will prove a valuable contribution to...

Barry Eads 8 hours 40 minutes

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Historical Fiction

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 12: 1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of...

kyleti and 7 more 2 hours 41 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Memoirs

908

Theodore Roosevelt - Through the Brazilian Wilderness

CM Slosson and 14 more 12 hours 33 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

864

Bram Stoker - Lair of the White Worm (Version 2)

The Lair of the White Worm (also known as The Garden of Evil) is a horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, who also wrote Dracula. It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. The book was published in...

Mark Penfold and 7 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Age of Chivalry

Thomas Bulfinch explains the his work is «an attempt to tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient...

Marlim and 14 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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New

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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