Beth Thomas (1974-2020)

135 books

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth The Wanderer

One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, he wanders around the world in search of someone who would replace him and...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 28 hours 39 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

611

Ann Radcliffe - Romance of the Forest

A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in «Northanger Abbey» as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural fears of Catherine. Ann Radcliffe has been called the «Great Enchantress» of her age...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 13 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure

434

L. Frank Baum - Phoebe Daring

A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman

Miriam Esther Goldman and 9 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

449

Elliott O'Donnell - Werwolves

Written in 1912 by a famous ghost hunter who was also an occult fantasy writer, this interesting book collects together folktales and traditions from across Europe, starting in the British Isles, through Spain,...

Beth Thomas and 9 more 6 hours 34 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

607

Charlotte Brontë - Emma: A Fragment of a Story

Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daughter to be educated there. When background checks are made, it is discovered...

Oxenhandler and 1 more 43 minutes

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Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Action & Adventure Fiction

508

Baroness Emma Orczy - Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals' famous painting invites you to wonder just what mischievousness hides behind that face. In this novel, inspired by the painting, Baroness Orczy recounts...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 13 hours 39 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

494

Curiosities of Street Literature

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about...

Ed Humpal and 27 more 21 hours 22 minutes

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Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Andrew Lang - Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens, and a few words are necessary to explain why the...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Science Fiction

478

Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 15, March 1931

This issue includes «When the Mountain Came to Miramar» by Charles W. Diffin, «Beyond the Vanishing Point» by Ray Cummings, «Terrors Unseen» by Harl Vincent, the conclusion of «Phalanxes of Atlans» by F. V. W. Mason,...

Catherine Russell and 5 more 8 hours 58 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Literary Fiction

494

Thomas Hardy - Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

A milkmaid, Margery, encounters a mysterious foreigner and perhaps prevents him from committing suicide. In gratitude, the man offers her any reward she can name. She tells him she wants to go to a ball. He takes her,...

Alisson Veldhuis and 2 more 3 hours 18 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Watchman and Other Poems

While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon , she also wrote hundreds of poems. Her love of beauty, nature, and the sea is evident in this, the only...

Beth Thomas and 19 more 3 hours 2 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

488

Henry Lawson - Shame of Going Back

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often...

Algy Pug and 16 more 36 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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