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137 books
*Non-fiction
650
Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Book of American Explorers
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American continent from the Northmen...
9 hours 54 minutes
Anthologies
694
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 9
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...
17 hours 56 minutes
Romance
583
William Harrison Ainsworth - Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2
The second volume of a romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the...
7 hours 36 minutes
History
513
Charles F. Horne - Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 1
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. This is volume 1 of...
17 hours 53 minutes
General Fiction
506
Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer
Guy Mannering is a young astrologer, just down from Oxford. While travelling in Scotland, he loses his way and unexpectedly comes to stay at Ellangowan, just as the son of Godfrey Bertram is born. Guy Mannering...
20 hours 1 minute
