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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice,...

Marlo Dianne and 6 more 17 hours 35 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

910

Bram Stoker - Dracula

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the...

Kara Shallenberg and 16 more 16 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

653

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that...

Marlo Dianne and 26 more 16 hours 11 minutes

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Poetry

656

Dante Alighieri - Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened «Divina» by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature,...

Cori Samuel and 13 more 12 hours 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

596

Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales

A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark...

Chris Vee and 31 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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Children's Fiction

561

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s optimism and...

Betsie Bush and 11 more 10 hours 31 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

548

Gaston Leroux - Phantom of the Opera

An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doesn't get his own way. Secrets, intrigues, falling chandeliers! The Phantom...

Cori Samuel and 14 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

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Elizabeth E. Lea - Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic affairs. For, whilst receipt books for elegant preparations were often seen,...

Gesine and 13 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Humorous Fiction

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Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) , published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was intended initially to be a...

Geetu Melwani and 13 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Poetry

653

Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people...

Lokon and 43 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Carlo Collodi - Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was published in serial form between 1881 and 1883, and then completed as a book...

Sherry Crowther and 18 more 4 hours 35 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Beatrix Potter - Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great...

Kara Shallenberg and 15 more 3 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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