Kristin LeMoine

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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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Family

545

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Story Girl

The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise, Canada. Along with various cousins and other soon-to-be-friends, they meet...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

587

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror —...

Kara Shallenberg and 17 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired...

Vinny Bove and 11 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

559

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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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Warden

Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and...

Andy Minter and 6 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Science Fiction

630

H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English...

Stephan Möbius and 10 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Animals & Nature

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Anna Sewell - Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an...

Kara Shallenberg and 18 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Poetry

653

Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people...

Lokon and 43 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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*Non-fiction

541

Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince

ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532,...

Chip and 6 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Rainer and 13 more 5 hours 31 minutes

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02)

This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II. In this chapter we see the restoration of the House of Stuart. The mood of the people sours toward...

Chip and 4 more 4 hours 49 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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