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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - After Dark

William Kerby is in danger of losing his sight, which would hit him especially hard as he is a painter. Only rest can preserve it, but a man must eat, and so he and his wife Leah look for other ways to generate a...

Anna Simon and 10 more 15 hours 11 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

445

Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...

Ulrike Denis and 21 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

496

Francis Marion Crawford - Wandering Ghosts

This is a collection of seven ghost stories by Francis Marion Crawford. The volume includes all of the essential ingredients for good ghost and horror stories, such as mysterious deaths, haunted houses, and even...

Dan Gurzynski and 4 more 7 hours 39 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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Biography & Autobiography

453

Emily Clemens Pearson - Gutenberg and the Art of Printing

This book is readable account of one of the greatest inventions of modern time: moveable type. Gutenberg's work lays the foundation for the printing press, without which the world would look very different… It reads...

Availle and 12 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Historical Fiction

447

Sir Walter Scott - Black Dwarf

The Black Dwarf is the first of the “Tales of My Landlord” series, which also includes The Bride of Lammermoor and The Heart of Midlothian. The third preliminary chapter depicts two horsemen arriving at the Wallace...

tbragg and 5 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

445

Andrew Barton Paterson - Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window into the past and the culture of the region. — Summary by A. Gramour

Beth Thomas and 7 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai» is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Nick J. Gold and 18 more 9 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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Humorous Fiction

457

James Francis Thierry - Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons

The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Recorded by his Friend Dr. Watson is a parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories....

SirQueezle and 6 more 3 hours 52 minutes

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Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Morris - Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

Paezra and 4 more 3 hours 18 minutes

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Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Travel Fiction

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Jules Verne - Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes the Russians enemy agents in an English colony. Summary by Kim.

Ryan and 8 more 5 hours 28 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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