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Wilkie Collins - Armadale

The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a...

David Barnes and 19 more 31 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - No Name

The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it...

SilverG and 14 more 29 hours 40 minutes

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Family Life

550

George Meredith - Egoist

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he...

Martin Geeson and 9 more 22 hours 18 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

638

Samuel Richardson - Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

«Now first published in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has its Foundation in Truth and Nature; and at the same time that it...

Ann Boyer and 10 more 22 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

546

Mrs. Henry Wood - East Lynne

Ellen Wood (1814-1887) was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Lynne which was a Victorian best seller and is still sometimes performed as a...

Sibella Denton and 20 more 21 hours 48 minutes

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*Non-fiction

475

Jonathan Edwards - Select Sermons

Jonathan Edwards was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards «is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian.»...

dexter and 12 more 19 hours 32 minutes

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Historical Fiction

538

Marcus Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of his Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life...

Landii and 8 more 18 hours 21 minutes

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Performing Arts

488

P. T. Barnum - Humbugs of the World

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal...

Barry Eads and 20 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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George Dunderdale - Book of the Bush

«While the world was young, nations could be founded peaceably. There was plenty of unoccupied country, and when two neighbouring patriarchs found their flocks were becoming too numerous for the pasture, one said to...

Magdalena and 10 more 12 hours 15 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

573

Henry L. Williams - Lincoln Story Book

Subtitle: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form — compiled by Henry L. Williams The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago...

Ernst Schnell and 33 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

450

Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career

Sybella «There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life,...

Annise and 11 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

635

Rudyard Kipling - Light That Failed

This novel, first published in 1890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. It was made into a 1916...

icyjumbo and 10 more 7 hours 46 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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