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Political Science

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the...

Deborah Brabyn and 16 more 17 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

Frances Milton Trollope - Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies his cowering wife into working herself to death. Shortly after giving birth to...

Anna Simon and 8 more 17 hours 26 minutes

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Christian Fiction

George MacDonald - Seaboard Parish

This is Second book of Three series. All the same characters from the first book, just with a few new friends and family members. The Pastor moves up by the Sea and starts preaching at the Parish there. He and his...

Ed Humpal and 11 more 17 hours 24 minutes

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Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

Philosophy

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John Locke - Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes the notion of innate ideas and argues against a number of propositions that...

bala and 10 more 17 hours 23 minutes

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Romance

George Gissing - Life's Morning

This is the story of a poor young lady Emily Hood who while working as a governess falls in love with Wilfrid Athel the son of her employer. They become engaged, however things do not run smoothly after a visit home...

shihping and 5 more 17 hours 20 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Wyllard's Weird

A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary...

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General Fiction

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Charles James Lever - Fortunes of Glencore

Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the marriage and therefore...

Clay Beauchamp and 12 more 17 hours 12 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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George Walter Thornbury - Haunted London

London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of ghostly presences abound.

Lynne T and 10 more 17 hours 9 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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George Payne Rainsford James - Agnes Sorel

The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession to...

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Biography & Autobiography

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J. Thomas Looney - Shakespeare Identified

That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled specialists must doubtless appear to many as a glaring act of over- boldness;...

Lucretia B. and 15 more 16 hours 55 minutes

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*Non-fiction

Moncure Daniel Conway - Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)

Guero and 9 more 16 hours 52 minutes

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07

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

DJRickyV and 14 more 16 hours 45 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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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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