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Detective Fiction

444

Anna Katharine Green - Filigree Ball

[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bears to this day the impress of the large ideas and quiet elegance of colonial...

Crln Yldz Ksr 12 hours 5 minutes

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Detective Fiction

441

Anna Katharine Green - Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock

A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence — until he decides to talk to the neighbors of the victim, a blind doctor and his beautiful wife… —...

Crln Yldz Ksr 2 hours 14 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

487

Sea Stories

Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor! To run away to sea has been the misdirected...

Lynne T and 12 more 11 hours 56 minutes

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Law

432

Cesare Beccaria - Essay on Crimes and Punishments

Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and the death penalty, is said to mark the peak of Enlightenment in Milan. Its...

Crln Yldz Ksr 6 hours 55 minutes

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Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty

Biography & Autobiography

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Hester Lynch Piozzi - Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty

Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illustrious figures of London society in her time, among others the famous Samuel...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 8 minutes

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Romance

503

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Little Gray Lady

As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great mistake she has made so long ago. This year, however, things are to play out...

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

506

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - Satan's Diary

«Satan's Diary», Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919. But a few years ago the most popular and successful of Russian writers, Andreyev died...

Crln Yldz Ksr 8 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

439

Richard Harding Davis - Lion and the Unicorn

What if figures of animals had lives of their own? If the figures of a lion and a unicorn at the shop across the street could talk, what would they say about the little things in life that they see every day on the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 40 minutes

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General Fiction

425

Anna Katharine Green - Staircase at the Heart's Delight

Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ashore in New York City, and the first clue leads to a dubious money lender…...

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General Fiction

464

Anonymous - Ordeal of Elizabeth

An unforgettable family saga which revolves around the beautiful young Elizabeth. Elizabeth is orphaned and raised by her spinster aunts. As an adult, she finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage and ultimately...

Lani Small and 10 more 10 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

437

Arthur W. Marchmont - Dash for a Throne

The young Count von Rudloff got himself into so much trouble with the Imperial Family in Berlin, that he sees no other way out of it than to fake his own death. Stumbling through different identities, he finally...

Crln Yldz Ksr 12 hours 4 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

487

Richard Harding Davis - My Buried Treasure

«This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story,...

Crln Yldz Ksr 50 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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