Grant Hurlock

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known...

JuliaY and 9 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

488

F. Tennyson Jesse - Milky Way

The Milky Way — F. Tennyson Jesse's first novel — began life as a 1913 magazine serial called The Adventures of Viv. In it, poor-but-plucky Cornish painter/model Vivian Lovel recounts events of her twenty-first year:...

Grant Hurlock 11 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

467

Vasco de Lobeira - Amadis of Gaul

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was...

Leni and 14 more 29 hours 18 minutes

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Romance

557

Charles Norris Williamson - Princess Passes

An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only loves her money, so she does what anyone might do: she bolts for Europe, dons male...

Grant Hurlock 11 hours 36 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Richard Harris Barham - Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series

The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first...

Grant Hurlock 9 hours 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

512

John Buchan - Prester John

This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfurd before the age of twenty. As a boy growing up on the coast of...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 45 minutes

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General Fiction

540

Dolf Wyllarde - Pathway of the Pioneer

The story of seven girls who have banded themselves together for mutual help and cheer under the name of «Nous Autres.» They represent, collectively, the professions open to women of no deliberate training, though...

Grant Hurlock 10 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

490

Dorothy Tennant - Miss Pim's Camouflage

Mid-WWI, staid Englishwoman Miss Perdita Pim suffers a sunstroke gardening & gains the power of invisibility. She becomes a super-secret agent, going behind German lines, sometimes visible, sometimes not, witnessing...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

521

Grant Allen - Type-Writer Girl

(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner) «There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young lady, crushed between classes above and below, and left with scarce a chance of...

Grant Hurlock 5 hours 38 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Frank Gelett Burgess - Find the Woman

Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, into strange houses and through side streets at midnight, a shuttle in the...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 28 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3

Published before 1800

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3

This is volume 3 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759,...

Ruth Golding and 7 more 5 hours 13 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...

TriciaG and 10 more 21 hours 51 minutes The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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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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