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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers , as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of...

Kristin LeMoine and 49 more 55 hours 18 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. The book portrays a parricide in which...

Sarah Bean and 26 more 37 hours 56 minutes

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General Fiction

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Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its...

Kristine Bekere and 10 more 32 hours 42 minutes

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Erotica

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Giacomo Casanova - Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1

This is the first of five volumes. — Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats,...

icyjumbo and 15 more 24 hours 55 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous...

Nerijus and 13 more 23 hours 26 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 1

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 1

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Julie VW and 24 more 21 hours 34 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

Law

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William Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. The...

Jc Guan and 5 more 17 hours 54 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Thomas Gordon - Works of Tacitus, Vol. I

The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only books 1-5 of the Histories and 1-6 and 11-16 of the Annals survive), enough...

Jim Mowatt and 12 more 15 hours 8 minutes

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Nature

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Charles Hoy Fort - Book of the Damned

The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and...

Matthew Shepherd and 6 more 14 hours 27 minutes

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Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Jeremy Bentham - Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation , a classic text in modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first published in 1789, focuses on the principle of utility and how this view of...

Jc Guan and 11 more 13 hours 56 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 1

This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Ryan T. and 29 more 13 hours 46 minutes

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Republic

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato's best known work. In it, Socrates and...

ontheroad and 13 more 13 hours 14 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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