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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Harry Collingwood - Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

Eric Blackburn's strange adventures begin when the ship on which he is engaged as fourth officer is struck by an enormous meteorite and sinks within minutes, and Blackburn is the sole survivor out of the 535 people on...

Tom Penn and 6 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

515

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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

482

Harris Burland - Black Motor Car

Head over heels in love with the amazingly beautiful Mrs. de la Mothe, Jack Portheous is led to embezzle a large sum of money from the bank at which he works, and plans to elope with her to South America. On the eve...

Dru Conway and 9 more 9 hours 47 minutes

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Travel & Geography

459

George Walter Thornbury - Haunted London

London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of ghostly presences abound.

Lynne T and 10 more 17 hours 9 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

466

Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...

Ulrike Denis and 21 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Poetry

495

Maria J. Moss - Poetical Cook-Book

This is an interesting mix of recipes and poetry about cookery and food. The author has written this book during and in the aftermath of the civil war in the United States. The recipes are sound and can be used still...

Matthew Datcher and 7 more 2 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure

467

Elijah Kellogg - Lion Ben of Elm Island

An adventure story for boys, in which the author aims to «impart pleasure, and, at the same time, inspire respect for labor, integrity and every noble sentiment». There is a sense of nostalgia, as Kellogg sets his...

A LibriVox Volunteer and 9 more 5 hours 24 minutes

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Poetry

460

Robert Baldwin Ross - Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

This is a selection of the early poetry of Oscar Wilde, selected by Robert Ross. As he puts it, «It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar...

CJ Baars and 6 more 1 hour 37 minutes

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Earth Sciences

486

Charles Lyell - Principles of Geology

Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell, first published in 3 volumes...

Larry Wilson and 25 more 46 hours 1 minute

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Published 1900 onward

492

Anonymous - Nell and Her Grandfather

If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of «not quite fourteen», an orphan, who lived with her maternal grandfather in his shop of...

Phil Chenevert and 6 more 2 hours 11 minutes

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Historical Fiction

563

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke

This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and how to find adventure. But over the course of his career, adventure finds...

Jim Lardner and 8 more 19 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

529

Mrs. Henry de la Pasture - Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square

Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady. Jeanne Marney, a country girl, comes to London to care for her ailing aunt....

jenno and 5 more 8 hours 50 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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