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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. III

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap...

Lynne T and 24 more 46 hours 11 minutes

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Performing Arts

P. T. Barnum - Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself

The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the «Greatest Show on Earth,» P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It details his life and business struggles up to the year 1872. Not only a showman and a...

DrPGould and 13 more 27 hours 17 minutes

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History

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin

After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked off the Civil War that put an end to legalized slavery in America, there was a great outcry that Stowe had blown her fictional story out of all...

Michele Fry and 9 more 26 hours 57 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to...

Gillian Hendrie and 14 more 26 hours 47 minutes

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Business & Economics

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J. Laurence Laughlin - Principles of Political Economy

The Principles of Political Economy , first published in 1848, was one of the most important texts on the subject of economy at that time. It is broken up into five books; Production, Distribution, Exchange,...

Aaron Rivera and 19 more 25 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock, or, The Cavalier

This novel is set during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. It is comprised of real events, along with fictional ones. If you are looking for an adventure novel with romance and mystery, please look no...

Jim Locke and 9 more 22 hours 5 minutes

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World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

This is the second 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,...

Sonia and 23 more 17 hours 57 minutes World's Story

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Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Catherine Crowe - Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers

The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are...

Marialuisa Ruiz and 12 more 17 hours 39 minutes

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Cooking

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Alexis Soyer - Pantropheon

Soyer was a 'celebrity chef', devising innovations such as water-cooled refrigerators and adjustable temperature ovens. He developed many popular recipes and catered for 2000 guests at Queen Victoria's coronation...

Lynne T and 11 more 17 hours 36 minutes

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Nature

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Robert Hooke - Micrographia

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to the Latin of other publications of the time like Newton's 'Principia...

DrPGould and 22 more 17 hours 11 minutes

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World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

This is the third 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,...

Sonia and 23 more 16 hours 12 minutes World's Story

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Literary Criticism

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H. L. Mencken - American Language

«It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work, all the time, to read the more important English novels, essays, poetry and...

DrPGould and 10 more 15 hours 41 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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