Ruth Golding

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Animals

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Mrs. Isabella Beeton - Book of Household Management

«Mrs. Beeton's» is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate bestseller, running to millions of copies within just a few years. In the cookery...

Sarah Jennings and 32 more 58 hours 15 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers , as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of...

Kristin LeMoine and 49 more 55 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

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Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its...

Kristine Bekere and 10 more 32 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jane Porter - Scottish Chiefs

An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children,...

Shirley Ellen and 14 more 29 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

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D. H. Lawrence - Women in Love

Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun...

Ruth Golding 25 hours 19 minutes

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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

Since this series of books is intended for all young people from one to one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. Nothing better was ever invented to tell to little folks who are...

Cori Samuel and 39 more 19 hours 58 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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Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Jean de la Lacroix - Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on private life, food, hunting, games and pastimes, costume, privileges and...

Leni and 5 more 17 hours 5 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Last Days of Pompeii

Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the...

Ric F and 11 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1

Psychology

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Hans Gross - Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of...

Availle and 13 more 15 hours 44 minutes

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 03

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 03

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Barbara Clements and 17 more 15 hours 1 minute Thousand Nights and a Night

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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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