Kirsten Ferreri

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Unknown - Beowulf

Beowulf. [Translated by Francis Barton Gummere].This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who...

Kara Shallenberg and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

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General Fiction

594

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished with her schooling, and with no family that really cares of her she strikes...

Cagirlwithasoutherndrawl and 20 more 20 hours 37 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

594

Gene Stratton-Porter - Girl of the Limberlost

A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp, during...

Kymm Zuckert and 9 more 11 hours 25 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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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called...

Oscar Goff and 11 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Romance

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Charlotte Brontë - Villette

After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against an overwhelming sense of desolation. Meeting a charming doctor and a strict,...

Chip and 17 more 20 hours 26 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure … and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters — Mole, Rat, and Toad — generally lead upbeat and happy...

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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*Non-fiction

636

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius - Consolation of Philosophy

Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in...

Kirsten Ferreri and 16 more 5 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

565

Henry Handel Richardson - Getting of Wisdom

The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on Henry Handel Richardson's experiences of her own school, the Prebysterian...

Chip and 9 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested...

Alex Foster and 14 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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George MacDonald - Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

George MacDonald is mainly known for his fantasy works and fairy tales such as At the Back of the North Wind and the Princess and the Goblin. However, during his life he was more famous for many more realistic...

Bookworm and 13 more 7 hours 5 minutes

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Poetry

658

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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New

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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