Michele Eaton

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George Meredith - Diana of the Crossways

Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miserable marriage. Yet Diana is not one to give up in her quest for love,...

KHand and 12 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Macdermots of Ballycloran

This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a dilapidated mansion in Co. Leitrim, whose mortgage to Joe Flannelly he cannot...

Bob Neufeld and 8 more 16 hours 41 minutes

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Family Life

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Robert Kemp Philp - Reason Why

This collection of useful information on «Common Things» is put in the interesting form of «Why and Because,» and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of...

Anusha Iyer and 17 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Walter Besant - Blind Love

Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besant. The blind love in the title refers to the love of Iris, a woman of...

Tony Foster and 17 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. This is Volume six out of a series of nine Volumes....

Tony Addison and 7 more 13 hours 6 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Children's Fiction

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Pascal Ramseier and 28 more 13 hours 2 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

G. A. Henty - At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire the Indian Peninsula. When the struggle began, the Mahrattas were masters of...

Lynne T and 9 more 12 hours 53 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Charles F. Horne - Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The set is edited by...

Greg Giordano and 15 more 11 hours 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Curse of Carne's Hold

When Ronald Mervyn from Devonshire is falsely accused of murder he emigrates to South Africa. He takes part in the Kaffir war and during this time he rescues a family from death. The family then return to England and...

Michele Eaton and 8 more 11 hours 27 minutes

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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Butler Yeats - Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. — Summary by Michele Eaton

Juliet Brown and 17 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Louis Joseph Vance - Black Bag

Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified favor, but Kirkwood doesn''t trust him and sends him away. That night, he sees...

William Tomcho and 4 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Grant M. Overton - Women Who Make Our Novels

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary...

MaryAnn and 13 more 10 hours 20 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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