Jim Locke

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Epistolary Fiction

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Étienne Pivert de Senancour - Obermann

This is a 1903 translation of Étienne Pivert de Senancour's immensely influential work Obermann. Although it was almost completely ignored by the reading public when it was first published during the period of...

Jim Locke and 1 more 17 hours 35 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Charlotte's Inheritance

A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial,...

Lynne T and 4 more 16 hours 9 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

460

Edward Tyas Cook - Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2

A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of her notes, letters and writings, that goes way beyond the mere legend of «The...

Jim Locke and 6 more 17 hours 34 minutes

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Romance

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Minister's Wooing

Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In The Minister's Wooing , Stowe takes the reader into...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 14 hours 10 minutes

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Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Snorri Sturleson - Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World

Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) ca. 1230. The...

Ærik Bjørnsson and 1 more 34 hours 23 minutes

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Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 4

Other religions

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Max Arthur Macauliffe - Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 4

This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well...

Pardeep Ahluwalia and 1 more 14 hours 7 minutes Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alain René Lesage - Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane

Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at the age of seventeen to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future...

Jim Locke 34 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to...

Gillian Hendrie and 14 more 26 hours 47 minutes

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Short Stories

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Alphonse Daudet - Monday Tales

This is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The stories paint an incredibly vivid picture of life in continental Europe before the turn of the last century. The settings of the stories also take us all...

MaryAnn and 5 more 9 hours 12 minutes

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Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects

Animals

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Edward Saunders - Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects

An overview of bees and stinging insects — Summary by Larry Wilson

Larry Wilson and 11 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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William Lyon Phelps - Essays on Modern Novelists

A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a...

Anna Simon and 4 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Law

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Walter Bagehot - English Constitution

The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized form in 1865-7. While some of his observations on the English system no longer...

sawasawaya and 3 more 10 hours 51 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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