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Poetry

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John Milton - Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully...

Owen and 11 more 9 hours 41 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter

The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter...

hefyd and 11 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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William Henry Hudson - Far Away and Long Ago

William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora...

hefyd and 9 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1

Middle Ages/Middle History

581

Niccolò Machiavelli - History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the appointment to...

ontheroad and 8 more 8 hours 52 minutes History of Florence

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Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East

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585

Alexander William Kinglake - Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East

A classic of victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in time of plague. [Summary by hefyd]

hefyd and 6 more 8 hours 34 minutes

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Language learning

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Helen Fryer - Esperanto Teacher

The international language Esperanto was first released to the world in 1887, when L. L. Zamenhof published his first book, «Dr. Esperanto's International Language». Since that time, many learning books have been...

Nicholas James Bridgewater and 4 more 8 hours 22 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Jacob Abbott - Peter the Great

There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign...

Russ Lemker and 5 more 7 hours 2 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Walter Pater - Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1

Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare...

hefyd 6 hours 35 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

536

Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 2

The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature...

MorganScorpion and 4 more 6 hours 19 minutes The Faerie Queene

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 1

General Fiction

601

Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 1

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following...

Gesine and 8 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 2

General Fiction

464

Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 2

This is volume 2 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in...

Julie VW and 5 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament

Language learning

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George Lovell Cary - Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament

A collection of lessons (primarily in grammar) for New Testament Greek (also known as Koine) collected by a professor at Meadville Theological School of Pennsylvania. There are over 80 short lessons, each covering an...

M.White and 4 more 4 hours 32 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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