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Wilkie Collins - Evil Genius

The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled «A Domestic Scene». It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, including the «evil genius», and their governess Sydney Westerfield. In colorful...

ToddHW and 14 more 12 hours 50 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Letters from Victorian Pioneers

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response...

Beth Thomas and 15 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3

Psychology

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Hans Gross - Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3

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 12 more 12 hours 33 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Taras Bulba and Other Tales

A collection of classic Russian literature from the mind of one of the world's well know authors. The collection includes Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait,...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

462

Mary Macleod - Shakespeare Story-Book

This book contains many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, retold for children. — Summary by kathrinee

Jason in Panama and 11 more 12 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

572

Jules Verne - Steam House

Jules Verne is back with another action-packed adventure--this time in India with a steam-powered elephant! Maucler, Captain Hood, Banks, and Colonel Munro set out for a pleasure trip across India in their train...

J. E. Vorble and 10 more 11 hours 48 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya

Victoria de Loredani lives the life of a fairy tale princess in Venice. She has everything one might desire and more, until the sinister Count Ardolph enters her world. The Count carries off Victoria's mother in an...

deongines and 9 more 11 hours 46 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Robert Barr - Sword Maker

Times are hard in Frankfort. Defeat in war, weak leadership, trade blockades and a starving population lead to a restive and unhappy citizenry. The one thing Frankfort does have is the best three sword-makers in the...

Roman Noble and 10 more 11 hours 44 minutes

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Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym . In it, Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling vessel and...

Ernst Pattynama and 14 more 11 hours 30 minutes

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Romance

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Sybil G. Brinton - Old Friends And New Fancies

Generally acknowledged to be the first sequel to the work of Jane Austen, Old Friends and New Fancies incorporates characters from each of Austen's six major novels into one unified story, as well as those of...

Lynne T and 8 more 11 hours 27 minutes

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Philosophy

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John Dewey - Essays in Experimental Logic

In this early collection of formative essays, acclaimed American philosopher John Dewey argues that the idealistic, realistic, and analytic schools of philosophy fail to take into account the pragmatic and...

P. J. Taylor and 6 more 11 hours 27 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains twelve of...

Beth Thomas and 12 more 11 hours 3 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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