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Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

Intrigue, murder, highwaymen… A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into the possession of Colonel Thorndyke, who is subsequently sent home to England,...

Lynne T and 3 more 13 hours 42 minutes

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International Short Stories Volume 1: American Stories

Anthologies

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William Patten - International Short Stories Volume 1: American Stories

The first volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on American short stories and draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Katherine Greene, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe and many other favorites. Topics...

Lynne T and 10 more 13 hours 33 minutes

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True Crime

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Edwin H. Porter - Fall River Tragedy

The story of how Lizzie Borden supposedly murdered her parents has passed into American folklore, partly thanks to the albeit inaccurate playground rhyme, «Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks....

Lynne T 13 hours 31 minutes

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Short Stories

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Francis J. Reynolds - International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories

The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de Balzac, Voltaire, Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo and more. Compiled and translated by...

Bruce Pirie and 8 more 13 hours 28 minutes

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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 3

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 3

Clarissa Harlowe, is the tragic heroine of this story, she is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy. Originally they...

Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett and 6 more 13 hours 22 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Children's Fiction

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Henryk Sienkiewicz - In Desert and Wilderness

In Desert and Wilderness is a novel for children by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz. It tells the story of two children, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, and their adventures as they...

Beth Thomas and 14 more 13 hours 22 minutes

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Short Stories

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William Patten - International Short Stories Volume 2: English Stories

The second volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on 'English' short stories, although it includes writers from other parts of the British isles. It features pieces by William Thackeray, Charles Dickens,...

Tadhg and 10 more 13 hours 21 minutes

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Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08

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...

Lynne T and 6 more 13 hours 14 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Romance

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Gertrude Atherton - Black Oxen

Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet. Unknown to the young lover, the object of his devotion is defying age with...

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Children's Fiction

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Pascal Ramseier and 28 more 13 hours 2 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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General

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Unknown - Ontario Public School Geography

This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politically incorrect in some of its descriptions by modern day standards. (Summary...

David Lawrence and 16 more 12 hours 58 minutes

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At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. A. Henty - At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire the Indian Peninsula. When the struggle began, the Mahrattas were masters of...

Lynne T and 9 more 12 hours 53 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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