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Anthony Trollope - Last Chronicle of Barset

Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar from the earlier Barsetshire novels, including the Rev. Josiah Crawley, the...

Nicholas Clifford and 10 more 35 hours 19 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Romance

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Anthony Trollope - Small House at Allington

Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have...

Nicholas Clifford and 13 more 25 hours 15 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Three Clerks

The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a good deal of travelling; to make life easier for himself, Trollope had...

alwpoe and 8 more 20 hours 45 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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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Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 1

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 1

This, the first of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 8 of his short stories as well as reflections, critiques, and eulogies by others.

Bob Neufeld and 10 more 10 hours

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Grey Fairy Book

The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs....

Maria Therese and 24 more 9 hours 52 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906

General Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world...

Cata and 14 more 9 hours 10 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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Romance

Eleanor H. Porter - Dawn

Dawn (also known in England as «Keith’s Dark Tower»), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going blind. It is hard for him and his family. Most of the book deals with their ways —...

alwpoe and 6 more 8 hours 20 minutes

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Hannah Whitall Smith - God of All Comfort

This book is written to Christians who profess to believe the Bible as God's revelation, but whose «lives are filled with discomfort and unrest.» Smith aims to show that the Bible's claim that God is the «the God of...

Karen Fifer and 13 more 8 hours 4 minutes

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Science

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Charles Kingsley - Madam How and Lady Why

Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers (at least all the ones that were known in 1869) and gives...

alwpoe and 10 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Story of a Bad Boy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back to Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly...

Don Halpert and 7 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Herman Melville - Benito Cereno

On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed...

Nullifidian and 5 more 3 hours 53 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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