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Alessandro Manzoni - Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)

The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo, two young persons of humble origin that are deeply in love with one another....

TriciaG and 14 more 29 hours 11 minutes

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Vasco de Lobeira - Amadis of Gaul

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was...

Leni and 14 more 29 hours 18 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad

Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad is the second of the ten book series of Aunt Jane's Nieces. The story continues with the three much loved girls — the sweet and generous Patsy, the cunning Louise, and the sullen Beth. This...

margo zinberg and 8 more 6 hours 15 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Health & Fitness

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Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...

TriciaG and 10 more 21 hours 51 minutes The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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Frances Moore Brooke - History of Lady Julia Mandeville

Lady Julia, the daughter of the earl of Belmont, and Mr. Henry Mandeville are falling in love. Though Henry is like a family friend, this love is not welcomed because the lady Julia is promised to someone else (or so...

Delysid and 6 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Charles Ellms - Pirates Own Book

Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers.

JDV and 21 more 13 hours 20 minutes

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History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Niccolò Machiavelli - History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the appointment to...

ontheroad and 8 more 8 hours 52 minutes History of Florence

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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

Children's Fiction

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E. M. Berens - Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella)

Sibella Denton and 10 more 11 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

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Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its...

Kristine Bekere and 10 more 32 hours 42 minutes

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Louis Hémon - Maria Chapdelaine

Maria Chapdelaine is one of the most famous French Canadian novels. It is the love story of Maria Chapdelaine, daughter of a peasant family in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec, in the 1900s. It is often seen...

Kim S and 8 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction....

Scott Robbins and 12 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote - Vol. 2

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he...

Denny Sayers and 23 more 21 hours 52 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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