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Fanny Burney - Wanderer

This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. «Who is „Miss Ellis?“ Why did she board a ship from France to England at the beginning of the French revolution? Anyway,...

Roxanna Nazari and 6 more 36 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Is He Popenjoy ?

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in «Doctor Thorne,» the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a...

Barry O'Neill and 11 more 20 hours 40 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

479

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fenton's Quest

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country woman far below his station. He decides to marry her anyway. But is she all...

Anna Simon and 5 more 16 hours 49 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Henry Dunbar

In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the...

Victoria P and 11 more 15 hours 38 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

434

Lloyd Osbourne - Wrecker

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a...

Antony Brown and 9 more 14 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

436

Matthew Phipps Shiel - Purple Cloud

The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator's (Adam Jeffson's) expedition to the North Pole during the 20th century on board the Boreal. Jeffson's fiancée,...

Rhajimas Holmes and 11 more 11 hours 51 minutes

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Romance

509

Wilkie Collins - Two Destinies

Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn't seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each...

acousticwave and 12 more 10 hours 9 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Hunted Woman

This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins «It was all new — most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she...

Gabriela Cowan and 8 more 9 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Emerson Hough - Covered Wagon

«Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families.» This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oregon Trail, just before the California Gold Rush. It is the story of a wagon train bound...

Lynne T and 9 more 9 hours 26 minutes

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General Fiction

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Maria Thompson Daviess - Heart's Kingdom

Nickols Powers is in love with the beautiful Charlotte and desperate to marry her. Charlotte however, is independent and reluctant to accept his religious views as a good wife should. However, she may still be...

K.G.Cross and 5 more 6 hours 50 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Katharine Pyle - Mother’s Nursery Tales

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like the things you see around you or learn from history books. Facts and truths...

Phil Chenevert and 16 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Susan Coolidge - Just Sixteen

A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children — and enjoyable for adults too! They vary in style — fairy tales, humorous sketches,...

Jennifer Dorr and 11 more 6 hours 6 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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