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Josephine Butler - Native Races and the War

Josephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era British feminist who was strongly committed to liberal reforms. As a result of her efforts, international organisations including the International Abolitionist...

SallyMc and 1 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Men (version 2)

Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, Professor Bhaer. The mischievous children, whom she loves and cares for as her...

SallyMc and 6 more 9 hours 49 minutes

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Memoirs

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Lady Sarah Wilson - South African Memories

Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she was recruited to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the...

SallyMc 8 hours 5 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Sabine Baring-Gould - Book of Ghosts

Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he published more than 100 books, among them this collection of ghost stories....

Tim Quinn and 11 more 12 hours 41 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Augusta Ward - Lady Rose's Daughter

«Julie Le Breton enchants almost everyone around her with her smart, charm, and excellent manners. She almost belongs to the English highest nobility, but just almost… Her parents, 2 aristocrats who ran away from...

ngocmai1196 and 12 more 13 hours 38 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Basil

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin,...

CrowGirl and 8 more 11 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

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Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick - Outspan: Tales of South Africa

Six poignant short stories reminiscent of life as a transport rider in the Transvaal veld in the days of the gold rush in South Africa at the end of the 19th century. From an early age Fitzpatrick believed that life...

SallyMc 5 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Olive Schreiner - Story of an African Farm

The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults — Waldo, Em and Lyndall — who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late...

SallyMc 10 hours 26 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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George Eliot - Romola

George Eliot's own favorite among her novels, this novel tells the story of Romola, the intelligent daughter of a blind scholar, who is falling in love with a man who is going to change her life and the politics of...

Sandra G and 15 more 23 hours 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick - Jock of the Bushveld

Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider. The book tells of Fitzpatrick's...

SallyMc and 1 more 12 hours 46 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Waverley, Volume 1

Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and...

Mike Harris and 14 more 12 hours 31 minutes

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General Fiction

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Fanny Burney - Camilla

Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels, in her novel Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh!...

Adrian Wheal and 15 more 40 hours 5 minutes

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New

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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