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Sherwood Anderson - Windy McPherson's Son

Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of...

Lynne T and 5 more 10 hours 47 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

504

Gertrude Stein - Three Lives

Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealthy, or those who seem to be wealthy. She finds herself taking on...

KHand and 3 more 7 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

504

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock, or, The Cavalier

This novel is set during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. It is comprised of real events, along with fictional ones. If you are looking for an adventure novel with romance and mystery, please look no...

Jim Locke and 9 more 22 hours 5 minutes

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Children's Fiction

451

Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat

The Bobbsey family are are staying on a houseboat for summer vacation! At first all seems to be going well — what with fishing, playing with friends, and exploring the river. But then a mean farmer arrives, who seems...

deongines and 4 more 3 hours 56 minutes

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Family Life

473

Anne Douglas Sedgwick - Tante

It is a common trend, up until this very day, to reveal the difficult side of being a great artist. Madame Okraska is no different. Great artists are, sometimes, very complicated. Sometimes the price of success is too...

deongines and 6 more 16 hours 54 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

481

Edward Tyas Cook - Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 1

A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of her notes, letters and writings, that goes way beyond the mere legend of «The...

Michele Fry and 12 more 20 hours 13 minutes

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Action & Adventure

446

Thomas Mayne Reid - Ocean Waifs

«The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention. It is a raft, with a disc not...

Anton and 19 more 12 hours 41 minutes

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Animals & Nature

469

Marshall Saunders - "Boy" The Wandering Dog

Another 'dog's-eye view' book for children by this early activist for the American Humane Society. In this tale, we follow the travels and adventures of Boy, a loveable and loyal wire-haired fox-terrier in city and...

Lynne T and 10 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Memoirs

564

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Through the Magic Door

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of...

Gail Nelson and 8 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

438

H. Rider Haggard - Queen Sheba's Ring

A famed archeologist, an aging doctor, and a young army engineer set out across the African desert on a great adventure. Professor Higgs is in search of new archeological discoveries, Dr. Adams seeks to rescue his...

Anfinwen and 4 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7

Anthologies

473

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7

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...

Mike Pelton and 16 more 17 hours 59 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Action & Adventure Fiction

589

H. Rider Haggard - Fair Margaret

This story is set during the reign of King Henry VII. Peter Brome is a poor man and without a father, and is in love with Margaret the dark-eyed daughter of John Castell, the kindly and wealthy merchant who has taken...

Pardeep Ahluwalia and 7 more 10 hours 56 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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