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Willa Sibert Cather - Song of the Lark

Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place supposedly located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea...

E. Tavano and 6 more 16 hours 20 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Bill Nye - Remarks

«The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained in it are different from any other facts now in use. I have carefully guarded, all...

peac and 13 more 16 hours 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure

Thomas Mayne Reid - Death Shot

Long time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author was suffering severe affliction, both physically and mentally—the result of a...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 16 hours 6 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Elsie Venner

Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interrupt his studies for a time in order to earn money with which to fund the rest...

BettyB and 2 more 15 hours 57 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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DeWitt C. Peters - Life and Adventures of Kit Carson

Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide — an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literature, but most was pure fiction. This work is the authorized biography, much of...

Lynne T and 10 more 15 hours 39 minutes

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With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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G. A. Henty - With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest

In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civilization of tens of thousands. This is the story of an Englishman who boards a...

Ryan Cherrick and 2 more 15 hours 22 minutes

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Animals & Nature

Olive Beaupre Miller - From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Anastasiia Solokha and 20 more 15 hours 21 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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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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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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Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time

General Fiction

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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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lloyd Osbourne - Wrecker

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a...

Antony Brown and 9 more 14 hours 24 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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...

deongines 13 hours 42 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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