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General Fiction

547

Mrs. Henry Wood - Channings

This is a saga about life in a small town in England during the Victorian era. The «stars» of this saga are the Channings. Mr. Channing was ill and, because of his poverty, his six children have to work. Many things...

Elizabeth Klett and 12 more 20 hours 6 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

460

Anna Katharine Green - Agatha Webb

A universally beloved woman has been murdered. But who would have the heart to kill Agatha Webb? Would her husband do it for money matters? Or would it be the cook, who died at about the same time? Or would it be the...

C. Simmons and 8 more 11 hours

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Action & Adventure Fiction

430

Louis Joseph Vance - Red Masquerade

In the beginning of his career, Michael Lanyard alias The Lone Wolf, the most talented thief of his day, made the acquaintance of the beautiful Princess Sofia, but he also made an enemy of her husband, Prince Victor....

CaprishaPage and 8 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

457

B. M. Bower - Lure of the Dim Trails

Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought...

Richard Kilmer and 2 more 3 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

504

George Eliot - Felix Holt, The Radical

«Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the 1832 parliament election, is used...

acousticwave and 11 more 19 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

458

Edgar Fawcett - Douglas Duane

An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love with the book collector’s fiancée, he concocts an evil plot to have her for his...

ashleighjane and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Literary Collections

421

Clement Shorter - Victorian Literature

Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and critics of the Victorian era. Presented as a «gathering up (of) a few...

Mudlark and 4 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

471

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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Biography & Autobiography

487

H. P. Nichols - Women of History

An intriguing look at well known women in history from BC 500 to the mid 1800's. Each chapter is a brief overview of one woman's life. An interesting read. (Summary by Michele Eaton)

Lucretia B. and 24 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Life Sciences

468

Richard Swann Lull - Organic Evolution

Organic Evolution is a college textbook that describes the mechanism of biological evolution by natural selection. It then explores the evidences for evolution in various animals, including insects, reptiles, birds...

Lucretia B. and 26 more 26 hours 4 minutes

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Historical Fiction

501

Bolesław Prus - Pharaoh and the Priest

The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the...

Piotr Nater and 13 more 26 hours 23 minutes

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General Fiction

438

Stendhal - Red and the Black, Volume II

Stendhal — a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't...

Malone and 8 more 12 hours 15 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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