Mark F. Smith

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Historical Fiction

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James Fenimore Cooper - Pathfinder - The Inland Sea

Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution...

Mark F. Smith 18 hours 44 minutes Leatherstocking Tales

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General Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Nostromo

Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and puts his weight...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 17 hours 40 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Jules Verne - In Search of the Castaways

The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland...

Sibella Denton and 18 more 17 hours 2 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sir Thomas Malory - Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1

Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, «the death of Arthur») is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of some French and...

Lizzie Driver and 23 more 15 hours 50 minutes

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Epics

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Homer - Iliad

The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest...

Joshua B. Christensen and 16 more 14 hours 29 minutes

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River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

War & Military

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Winston S. Churchill - River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum,...

Mark F. Smith 14 hours 14 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Andrew Lang - Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as...

Maria Falin and 18 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 2)

This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make “sense” by bringing with it enough assets and income to...

Mark F. Smith 13 hours 28 minutes

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Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

Political Science

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Jefferson Davis - Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward...

Robert Hoffman and 7 more 12 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Johann David Wyss - Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to...

Mark F. Smith 12 hours 48 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Joel Chandler Harris - Nights With Uncle Remus

That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old «Africa man» visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong...

Mark F. Smith 12 hours 40 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Waverley, Volume 1

Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and...

Mike Harris and 14 more 12 hours 31 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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