Lucy Perry

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Thomas Peckett Prest - Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2

Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula , which it heavily influenced. Flora...

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 1

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 1

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Kingsley - Hypatia

Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 — January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. As a novelist, his chief...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sir George Webbe Dasent - Popular Tales from the Norse

The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the...

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

hefyd and 11 more 15 hours 48 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - I Say No

Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school; and Rev. Miles Mirabel, a clergyman....

Sandra G and 2 more 14 hours 31 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 2

This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

J. M. Smallheer and 26 more 12 hours 55 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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Action & Adventure

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Thomas Mayne Reid - Ocean Waifs

«The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention. It is a raft, with a disc not...

Anton and 19 more 12 hours 41 minutes

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» (or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai») is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

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Biography & Autobiography

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Xenophon - Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The title...

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

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Law

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Walter Wood - Survivors' Tales of Famous Crimes

In this anthology of true crime tales, editor Walter Wood interviews those who were touched by the crimes recounted, sometimes as an acquaintance of the deceased or criminal or in the course of their professional...

Nullifidian and 12 more 8 hours 9 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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