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Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire...

hosmer_angel and 19 more 36 hours 5 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, a rich dust contractor, in his will. To receive the money, John must...

Ophelia Darcy and 17 more 35 hours 6 minutes

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Satire

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like many novels of the time, Vanity Fair was published as a serial before being...

Michelle Crandall and 19 more 33 hours 4 minutes

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Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philosophical text of the modern age. Kant saw the Critique of Pure Reason...

ML Cohen and 14 more 27 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the...

Kristin LeMoine and 26 more 24 hours 50 minutes

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History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

Historical Fiction

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William Makepeace Thackeray - History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne — a story of Catholic — Protestant intrigue, and the party which aspired to the...

Måns Broo and 13 more 19 hours 21 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Elizabeth and 15 more 18 hours 59 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South (version 2)

North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret...

Kara Shallenberg and 10 more 18 hours 32 minutes

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Romance

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate...

Tina Tilney and 19 more 16 hours 3 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

Children's Fiction

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William Allan Neilson - Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of...

Robin Cotter and 31 more 14 hours 30 minutes

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Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Romance

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Daniel Defoe - Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this...

Denny Sayers and 9 more 13 hours 32 minutes

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Poetry

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Dante Alighieri - Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened «Divina» by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature,...

Cori Samuel and 13 more 12 hours 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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