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Romance

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Thomas Hardy - Woodlanders

The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been...

JimOCR and 19 more 14 hours 53 minutes

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Poetry

650

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, scope and correct...

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Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

Middle Ages/Middle History

586

Jean de la Lacroix - Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on private life, food, hunting, games and pastimes, costume, privileges and...

Leni and 5 more 17 hours 5 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

472

Flavius Philostratus - Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. His date of birth is a matter of conjecture as...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 5 more 18 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

439

Brazilian Tales

«Brazilian Tales» is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period — the end of the 19th century. His comprehensive preface aims at...

Leni 2 hours 57 minutes

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Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective

Crime & Mystery Fiction

542

Maurice Leblanc - Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective

In «The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective» — original title «Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes» — the gentleman-burglar once more meets his enemy, the...

Leni 6 hours 44 minutes

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Republic

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato's best known work. In it, Socrates and...

ontheroad and 13 more 13 hours 14 minutes

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Historical Fiction

483

Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1

Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ «Book 1» gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1 gives the account of Christ's birth. (Summary by MHAIJH85)

David Lawrence and 8 more 3 hours 9 minutes

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Business & Economics

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Thorstein Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class

Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the Theory of the Leisure Class is considered one of the great works of...

Anna Simon and 12 more 11 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

550

Maurice Leblanc - Eight Strokes of the Clock

The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. The stories have his most famous creation, Arsène Lupin, gentleman-thief, as main character. The eight stories, even though...

Leni 6 hours 26 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Heroides

The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, not only for their interesting subject — letters by famous mythological...

Julie VW and 11 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Antiquity

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Tacitus' Histories

The Histories was written between 110 and 100 B.C. It covered the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasian, and the rule of the Flavian Dynasty up to the death of Domitian....

Andrew Coleman and 7 more 11 hours 2 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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