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Leo Tolstoy


Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Publishe…

Enemy Lines

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John Mierau


In the near future, an alliance forged by powerful men will challenge the US government for control of secret technology. As their machinati…

Twelve Stories and a Dream

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H. G. Wells


Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland&quo…

Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

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Victor Appleton


Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the p…

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

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H. G. Wells


A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds". The science fiction …

Serving Worlds

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John Mierau


A cowboy on the run to keep his soul. A vampire running a Nigerian investor scam. A wolf racing to the mountaintop, before a dragon can cat…

Revolution, and other Essays

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Jack London


A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why Lon…

Jerry

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Jean Webster


Jerry is the humorous story of a young man's attempt to win his lady. Jerry is waiting for his friends at a hotel in Italy, and is bored and…

Scenes of Clerical Life

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George Eliot


Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fictio…

Arsène Lupin

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Maurice Leblanc


This work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, later novelized by Leblanc himself, translated …

Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

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Ingersoll Lockwood


The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have already braved many adventures together, but at the time our story …

A Country Doctor

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Sarah Orne Jewett


A Country Doctor is a fiction novel by American author Sarah Orne Jewett. The book, which was first published in 1884, was based on the rela…

City of Endless Night

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Milo Hastings


An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a …

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

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Mark Twain


This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essa…

The Loot Of Cities

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Arnold Bennett


Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century.…

The Pilot

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James Fenimore Cooper


The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the …

Gleanings in Buddha Fields

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Lafcadio Hearn


Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known fo…

AmerIndian 2192

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J. Scott Garibay


AmerIndian 2192 is a science-fiction novel that explores the intriguing possibilities of Native Americans in mankind's star flung future. Am…

Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

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Various


Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

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M. R. James


From a master of weird fiction comes this collection of ghost stories rooted in the antiquarian pursuits. A doll's house that reveals more t…

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