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Walter Besant - Blind Love

Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besant. The blind love in the title refers to the love of Iris, a woman of...

Tony Foster and 17 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

General

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remember the times to which the stories relate. Almost any encyclopedia can...

Greg Laughland and 13 more 14 hours 43 minutes The Junior Classics

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True Crime

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Arthur Griffiths - Chronicles of Newgate Vol 2

Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' — the warriors against crime...

Lynne T and 1 more 14 hours 34 minutes

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Family Life

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Rosa Campbell Praed - Policy and Passion

«Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life» tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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Virginia Woolf - Voyage Out (Version 2)

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to...

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lloyd Osbourne - Wrecker

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a...

Antony Brown and 9 more 14 hours 24 minutes

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Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

War & Military

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Anonymous - Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making — all far from home, while pitting themselves against the elements. The romance of the...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 14 hours 11 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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George MacDonald - Vicar's Daughter

This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father is a clergyman, Mr. Walton, whose history has already been told in «A Quiet...

Jules Hawryluk and 11 more 14 hours 9 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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George Gissing - Emancipated

In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expatriats go to tour the country and do things they might live to either bless or...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old

General

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old

A selection of famous tales selected and re-worked for a junior audience. Stories are taken from Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Shakespearean plays, Pilgrim's Progress, Ivanhoe, and The Startling...

Lynne T and 19 more 13 hours 56 minutes The Junior Classics

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Gothic Fiction

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Ann Radcliffe - Romance of the Forest

A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in «Northanger Abbey» as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural fears of Catherine. Ann Radcliffe has been called the «Great Enchantress» of her age...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 13 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Pitcher Woodward - On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours — starting without a dollar and earning my way." The journey could be...

Arnold and 9 more 13 hours 47 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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