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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo (version 2)

The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The...

Delmar H Dolbier and 38 more 49 hours 49 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Mr Scarborough's Family

MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance to avaricious money-lenders who hold post-obits to the entire value of the...

Michele Eaton and 13 more 22 hours 13 minutes

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George Eliot - Felix Holt, The Radical

«Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the 1832 parliament election, is used...

acousticwave and 11 more 19 hours 8 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Louise de la Valliere

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou...

Robert Snoza and 9 more 18 hours 23 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Rosa Nouchette Carey - Herb of Grace

Malcolm Herrick has it all: he is a lawyer, he has no financial problems, and he has wonderful friends and even an adopted sister. He is a dutiful boy to his mother. He is a loving friend. But he wanted something...

Peter Eastman and 3 more 15 hours 40 minutes

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Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay

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Frederick Marryat - Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay

Marryat was a midshipman under Captain Cochrane and this, his first naval adventure, is considered to be a highly autobiographical telling of his adventures with one of Britain's most famous and daring naval captains....

Lynne T and 7 more 15 hours 39 minutes

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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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Published 1800 -1900

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Walter Besant - Blind Love

Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besant. The blind love in the title refers to the love of Iris, a woman of...

Tony Foster and 17 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time

Heart and Science is one of Wilkie Collins' didactic novels. It is the story of young doctor Ovid Vere, who fights for his love against all resistance of his family and their immediate circle of acquaintances. The...

deongines and 5 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Fallen Leaves

Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is dominated by a number of women, all of them in some way a «fallen leaf», whom...

SteveMiller and 9 more 14 hours 19 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Legacy of Cain

Eunice and Helena are sisters brought up by their father, the Reverend Abel Gracedieu. They grow up quietly and happily, until some dark secrets about their past come to light. One of the daughters is adopted: her...

acousticwave and 10 more 13 hours 32 minutes

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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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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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