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52 books
Published 1800 -1900
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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. IV
The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of...
45 hours 55 minutes
Anthologies
2.6K
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 9
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...
17 hours 56 minutes
Historical Fiction
3.6K
Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...
17 hours 12 minutes
Mathematics
1.5K
Charles Babbage - Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal history, lest some kind friend should survive them, and, in showing off...
15 hours 28 minutes
Education
1.7K
John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II
John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: «I see no reason to believe, that the soul thinks before the senses have furnished it with ideas to think on....
14 hours 39 minutes
