Kevin McAsh

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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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Oscar Wilde - Reviews

Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove...

braindouche and 27 more 19 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that...

Marlo Dianne and 26 more 16 hours 11 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading...

Michael Sirois and 19 more 14 hours 59 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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Children's Fiction

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Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting...

Alex Foster and 12 more 11 hours

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Children's Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Children of the New Forest

The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house, Arnwood, is burned by Roundhead soldiers. However, they escape and are...

bryfee and 11 more 10 hours 56 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were originally published in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The title...

TBOL3 and 10 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Lilac Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of...

ML Cohen and 18 more 9 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind

Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for...

Meredith Hughes and 16 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Burgess Animal Book for Children

Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of...

Laurie Anne Walden and 16 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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John Wesley Powell - Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten...

Joan Freeman and 9 more 8 hours 7 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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