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Detective Fiction

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Erskine Childers - Riddle of the Sands

Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy...

Gesine 12 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

514

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 2

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Gesine and 13 more 12 hours 9 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Samuel Butler - Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the...

Kirsten Ferreri and 13 more 11 hours 50 minutes

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Political Science

606

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (Books I and II)

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book...

Carl Manchester and 15 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

499

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Patti Cunningham and 14 more 11 hours 21 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Return of Sherlock Holmes

Having left Sherlock Holmes apparently deceased at the conclusion of The Final Problem (in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), we now find that he is alive after all! In this collection, first published in 1905, the...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 11 hours 7 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales

A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark...

Chris Vee and 31 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were originally published in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The title...

TBOL3 and 10 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Myrtle Reed - How to Cook Fish

Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books and hundreds of magazine articles and pamphlets during her short lifetime. Ms....

Denny Sayers and 18 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Grey Fairy Book

The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs....

Maria Therese and 24 more 9 hours 52 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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*Non-fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested...

Alex Foster and 14 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Erotica

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John Cleland - Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre “Erotica.” It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor’s prison in London. Over the...

Chip and 6 more 9 hours 27 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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