Lee Smalley

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War & Military Fiction

Joseph A. Altsheler - Rock of Chickamauga

«The Rock of Chickamauga,» presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, dealing with the Civil War, of which its predecessors have been «The Guns of Bull Run,» «The...

Mike Pelton and 4 more 7 hours 59 minutes The Civil War Series

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War & Military

John Bernard Pye Adams - Nothing of Importance

Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experienced: the living conditions and duties of officers and “Tommies” (enlisted men)...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 58 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

882

Louis Tracy - de Bercy Affair

A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. Circumstances lead Scotland Yard to several suspects, including her wealthy...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 52 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

Ivan Turgenev - Smoke

Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affair between a young betrothed Russian man and a young married Russian woman,...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

875

Maria Edgeworth - Harrington

Harrington follows the protagonist of the same name who tries to explore his memories in order to understand his views on Jews. It begins with Harrington's early images of Jews, which are formed by a collection...

Jenny Bradshaw and 1 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

874

Frederic Stewart Isham - Nothing But the Truth

A young man, finding himself unexpectedly impecunious, attempts to improve his fortunes by wagering that he can speak nothing but the absolute truth for three weeks. He soon learns, however, that telling only the...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 28 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Herbert George Jenkins - Night Club

This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It was Bindle who conceived the idea of forming ”The Night Club”, where people...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 26 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Ivan Turgenev - Lear of the Steppes, etc.

This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 16 minutes

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Memoirs

874

Donald Shaw - Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as «a man of education and worldly experience» and weighing «19 stone 13 lbs» (279 lbs), a stone...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Le Queux - Stolen Souls

This is a collection of 14 of William le Queux' best mystery stories. (Summary by Carolin)

bala and 10 more 7 hours 11 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Aleksandr Kuprin - Slav Soul and Other Stories

Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling for his stories about people who are often «neurotic...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 53 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 1

”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still. «Dear Sir:—For most of the years I have lived, the escape of fugitives from slavery, and...

MaryAnn and 8 more 6 hours 44 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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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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