Sarah Jennings

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It...

Lee Ann Howlett and 10 more 14 hours 40 minutes

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Animals & Nature

607

Andrew Lang - Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as...

Maria Falin and 18 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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Literary Fiction

550

Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 1

This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Ryan T. and 29 more 13 hours 46 minutes

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General

521

Unknown - Ontario Public School Geography

This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politically incorrect in some of its descriptions by modern day standards. (Summary...

David Lawrence and 16 more 12 hours 58 minutes

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Children's Fiction

472

Caroline Emelia Stephen - French History for English Children

A history of France from Ancient Gaul up until 1880, written in short easy to comprehend chapters aimed at teaching English children. (Summary by Guero)

Guero and 15 more 12 hours 3 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

585

Andrew Lang - Yellow Fairy Book

«Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's „Coloured“ Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of...

Sarah Jennings and 23 more 11 hours 23 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Detective Fiction

554

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Return of Sherlock Holmes

Having left Sherlock Holmes apparently deceased at the conclusion of The Final Problem (in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), we now find that he is alive after all! In this collection, first published in 1905, the...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 11 hours 7 minutes

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Travel & Geography

463

Walt Whitman - Specimen Days

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.

Sue Anderson and 12 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

War & Military

465

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: «War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of...

Mary in Arkansas and 11 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

561

Dorothy Scarborough - Famous Modern Ghost Stories

An entertaining selection of «modern» ghost stories selected «to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of modern ghosts, as well as to show the art of individual stories.» Sure to please the love...

J. M. Smallheer and 12 more 9 hours 45 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Elizabeth Prentiss - Stepping Heavenward

Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mother is very much against their plans. But Katy’s life goes on through her...

Cagirlwithasoutherndrawl and 10 more 9 hours 34 minutes

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Children's Fiction

494

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne's House of Dreams

Anne's House of Dreams is book five in the series, and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together. (Summary from Wikipedia)

JemmaBlythe and 8 more 8 hours 9 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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