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Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Essays & Short Works

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William Hazlitt - Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt. The book contains some of Hazlitt's more famous essays...

Bob Gonzalez and 16 more 20 hours 30 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 5

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 5

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Availle and 17 more 18 hours 43 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I)

Published before 1800

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Tobias Smollett - Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I)

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771), first published in 1751, and revised and reissued in 1758. It is the story of the fortunes and misfortunes...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 18 hours 4 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Tobias Smollett - Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary...

David Lawrence and 7 more 17 hours 32 minutes

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General Fiction

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Benjamin Disraeli - Henrietta Temple

The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage to diminish....

Linda Andrus and 18 more 17 hours 31 minutes

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Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II)

Published before 1800

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Tobias Smollett - Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II)

Volume II continues the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle. The novel is written as a series of adventures, with every chapter typically describing a new adventure. There...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 17 hours 7 minutes

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Essays

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays book 1

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He...

Martin Geeson and 17 more 17 hours 5 minutes Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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Published 1800 -1900

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Émile Zola - L'Assommoir

Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism. More than half of...

Martin Geeson and 4 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who «knew» the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts...

Martin Geeson 16 hours 11 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society....

Martin Geeson 15 hours 42 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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William Law - Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

This is one of the greatest devotional books of the Christian faith, inspiring thousands to a closer walk with their Lord. John Wesley was a close associate of Mr. Law and was influenced by this very book to some of...

Robert Hoffman and 14 more 14 hours 18 minutes

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Christianity - Biographies

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Saint Augustine of Hippo - Confessions (Outler translation)

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes...

Mark Barnes and 9 more 13 hours 49 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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