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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Biography & Autobiography

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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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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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William Henry Giles Kingston - Three Midshipmen

This is the start of a series of four books following three friends through their career in the navy. Terence, Jack and Alick first meet at a boarding school, and become fast friends, not least because together they...

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World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 23 more 17 hours 12 minutes World's Story

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Published 1800 -1900

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Herman Melville - Pierre, or The Ambiguities

The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.

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Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II)

Published before 1800

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Tobias Smollett - Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II)

Volume II continues the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle. The novel is written as a series of adventures, with every chapter typically describing a new adventure. There...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 17 hours 7 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer - Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vol. 1

The first of three volumes of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. Covers the years 1770-1802. — Summary by Zain Solinski

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Family Life

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Lodore

The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic name must be kept. Even more so when lord Lodore dies. His wife and daughter...

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady's Mile

If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to be known in that circle. A novelist, a painter, and some aristocrats, willing...

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Family Life

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George Meredith - Diana of the Crossways

Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miserable marriage. Yet Diana is not one to give up in her quest for love,...

KHand and 12 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 22 more 16 hours 43 minutes World's Story

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World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 19 more 16 hours 37 minutes World's Story

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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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