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Mark Twain - Prince and the Pauper (version 2)

One day a poor boy, Tom, gets a little too near the gates of the palace. and the guards start to beat him. However the prince himself intervenes and invites Tom into the palace. They talk about their differences in...

Elijah Fisher and 10 more 7 hours 41 minutes

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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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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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Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals' famous painting invites you to wonder just what mischievousness hides behind that face. In this novel, inspired by the painting, Baroness Orczy recounts...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 13 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

536

Jules Verne - Abandoned

Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within the previous three...

Masch1 and 13 more 7 hours 1 minute

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Action & Adventure

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Thomas Mayne Reid - Cliff Climbers

A plant hunter, Karl Linden, and his brother Caspar are on their way to the Himalayas to collect the plants of that region. Many adventures befell the brothers and their guides, all of which led to their being trapped...

fiddlesticks and 9 more 8 hours 23 minutes

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In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

In this adventure story by the novelist and war correspondent, G.A. Henty, Desmond Kennedy, a young Irishman flees political oppression and religious persecution at home to serve in the French armies of Louis XIV. We...

Rachel and 10 more 12 hours 13 minutes

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Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Andrew Lang - Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens, and a few words are necessary to explain why the...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

502

George Alexander Fischer - Beethoven, A Character Study

A book of the life of the German Composer, Beethoven. — Summary by Jessie Yun

Denise Nordell and 9 more 7 hours 14 minutes

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School

548

Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins at School

The Bobbsey Twins is a series of books attributed to Laura Lee Hope, a house pseudonym of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The family includes a pair of older twins, Nan and Bert, and a pair of younger twins, Freddie and...

Bethany Baldwin and 8 more 3 hours 42 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charlotte Mary Yonge - Dove in the Eagle's Nest

Christina is an ordinary girl who lives with her aunt and uncle. Life is normal until one day when her father appears and plans to take Christina away to live with him at a robber baron's castle. Her peaceful life has...

Mike Justice and 6 more 11 hours 21 minutes

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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Butler Yeats - Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. — Summary by Michele Eaton

Juliet Brown and 17 more 11 hours 20 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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