John Burlinson

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General Fiction

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Maria Edgeworth - Helen

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in...

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7

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...

Mike Pelton and 16 more 17 hours 59 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Published 1900 onward

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1916: First Chapters Collection

These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. —...

John Burlinson and 9 more 14 hours 5 minutes

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Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals' famous painting invites you to wonder just what mischievousness hides behind that face. In this novel, inspired by the painting, Baroness Orczy recounts...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 13 hours 39 minutes

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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. This is Volume six out of a series of nine Volumes....

Tony Addison and 7 more 13 hours 6 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 055

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, 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...

Availle and 19 more 12 hours 6 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 062

LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, including George Gissing, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard...

Son of the Exiles and 11 more 9 hours 12 minutes Short Story Collections

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

TRUEBRIT and 11 more 9 hours 12 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Science Fiction

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Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 16, April 1931

Contents of this issue :- MONSTERS OF MARS EDMOND HAMILTON — Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet. (A Complete Novelette.)...

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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of...

John Burlinson 8 hours 32 minutes Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

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Single author

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Isaac Watts - Psalms of David

Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as «classical hymns» such as «Joy to the World» and «When I survey the wondrous cross». His translations of the Psalms are therefore...

Jael Baldwin and 20 more 8 hours 22 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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