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137 books
Historical Fiction
1.9K
Baroness Emma Orczy - Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders
A romantic, political adventure story set in the late 1500's, during the Spanish rule over the Netherlands, in the city of Ghent. Leatherface is an Orangist and emerges to lead the Ghent citizens to rebel and win back...
13 hours 42 minutes
*Non-fiction
3.1K
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
2.6K
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
1.7K
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
Children's Fiction
2.3K
Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7)
A slightly more complex sequel to Mark Twain's original book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book really shows the true side of racism in quite a different light. A brilliant masterpiece, The Adventures of...
11 hours 58 minutes
History
1.1K
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
926
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
