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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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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Erotica

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Giacomo Casanova - Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1

This is the first of five volumes. — Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats,...

icyjumbo and 15 more 24 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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Health & Fitness

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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Reference

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Grenville Kleiser - Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of...

Betsie Bush and 45 more 16 hours

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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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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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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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*Non-fiction

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Myrtle Reed - How to Cook Fish

Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books and hundreds of magazine articles and pamphlets during her short lifetime. Ms....

Denny Sayers and 18 more 10 hours 2 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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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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