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Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)

Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)

Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources,...

Clarica and 17 more 3 hours 28 minutes

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

*Non-fiction

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Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: «National Delusions», «Peculiar Follies», and «Philosophical Delusions». The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics...

J. M. Smallheer and 12 more 14 hours 19 minutes

Secret Passage

Detective Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Secret Passage

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: «That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek,...

Dawn Larsen and 6 more 9 hours 11 minutes

Mill on the Floss

Published 1800 -1900

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George Eliot - Mill on the Floss

The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform...

Lucy Burgoyne and 17 more 21 hours 15 minutes

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Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

Historical Fiction

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Fanny Burney - Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives...

Nikki Sullivan and 24 more 35 hours 50 minutes

Wings of the Dove

General Fiction

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Henry James - Wings of the Dove

«The Wings of the Dove,» published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 20 hours 11 minutes

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Adam Bede

Romance

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George Eliot - Adam Bede

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her...

Anita Roy Dobbs and 18 more 20 hours 35 minutes

Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is...

Justin S Barrett and 26 more 14 hours 54 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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