David Barnes

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Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, a rich dust contractor, in his will. To receive the money, John must...

Ophelia Darcy and 17 more 35 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Armadale

The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a...

David Barnes and 19 more 31 hours 38 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the...

Kristin LeMoine and 26 more 24 hours 50 minutes

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Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin - Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 14 more 24 hours 22 minutes

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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished with her schooling, and with no family that really cares of her she strikes...

Cagirlwithasoutherndrawl and 20 more 20 hours 37 minutes

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Romance

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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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Historical Fiction

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Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are...

Gesine and 18 more 19 hours 23 minutes

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World English Bible - Bible (WEB) NT 01-27: The New Testament

The World English Bible is a translation of the Bible into modern English. Work on the project began in 1997, but the translation has been released directly into the public domain, free of copyright. It is largely an...

David Lawrence and 17 more 19 hours 21 minutes Bible (World English Bible)

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice,...

Marlo Dianne and 6 more 17 hours 35 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial. Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils,...

Stephan Möbius and 23 more 17 hours 2 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Bram Stoker - Dracula

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the...

Kara Shallenberg and 16 more 16 hours 31 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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