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Detective Fiction

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black)

Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black ) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is...

Katie Gibboney and 3 more 7 hours 4 minutes

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai») is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Jc Guan and 8 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John Charles Dent - Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated to Canada shortly after that event, bringing with them, of course, the youth...

Moira Fogarty and 9 more 5 hours 27 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Tik-Tok of Oz

Betsy Bobbin encounters many strange and exciting adventures and people in the land of Oz; a side-plot is Queen Ann of Oogaboo's mission to take over Oz. (Summary by Ryan T.)

Ryan T. and 9 more 5 hours 17 minutes

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General Fiction

887

Louis Hémon - Maria Chapdelaine

Maria Chapdelaine is one of the most famous French Canadian novels. It is the love story of Maria Chapdelaine, daughter of a peasant family in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec, in the 1900s. It is often seen...

Kim S and 8 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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Erotica

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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Venus in Furs

The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his fascination with...

featherheadfop and 1 more 4 hours 52 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Helen M. Urban - Woman as Decoration

A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)

Julie VW and 11 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Time Machine

The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. This novel is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle...

Aaron Elliott and 7 more 4 hours 9 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 08: 1811-1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Jc Guan and 6 more 3 hours 57 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Philosophy

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Laozi 老子 - Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei (Tao Teh King)

The classic of the Way and of High Virtue is the Tao Teh Ching. Its author is generally held as a contemporary of Confucius, Lao Tzu, or Laozi. The exact date of the book's origin is disputed. The book is divided...

Melanie Schleeter McCalmont and 1 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672

Early Modern

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Thomas Chapais - Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672

Talon worked closely with lieutenant-general Prouville de Tracy to achieve the surrender of the Iroquois in 1627, thereby ending the threat that had hung over the colony for 20 years. Although Talon did not join the...

J. M. Smallheer and 5 more 2 hours 55 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Gerald Nolst Trenité - Chaos

«The Chaos» is a poem which demonstrates the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation, written by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), also known under the pseudonym Charivarius. It first appeared in an...

Alan Davis Drake and 12 more 1 hour 23 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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