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The Woman Who Did

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Grant Allen


Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…

Underground Man

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Gabriel Tarde


This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th centu…

Faces and Places

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Sir Henry W. Lucy


Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, wh…

The Fearsome Island

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Albert Kinross


No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipw…

Tea-table Talk

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Jerome K. Jerome


As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glitte…

East by West, Vol. 1

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Sir Henry W. Lucy


East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during …

The Westminster Alice

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Saki


Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…

The British Barbarians

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Grant Allen


After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and …

In Kent with Charles Dickens

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Thomas Frost


By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

The World's Lumber Room

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Selina Gaye


If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for …

East by West, Vol. 2

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Sir Henry W. Lucy


East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883…

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

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Castello Newton Holford


Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed…

Blottentots and How to Make Them

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John Prosper Carmel


This is very short, but it is a book with lots of pictures, and it will be even better if you can look at the pictures in the book at http:/…

Ruby Wedding Collection

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Various


This collection comprises short stories, poems, a little bit of history and a little bit of ornithology, all with ruby connections. The read…

The World of Sound

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Sir William Henry Bragg


The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institu…

The Prophet (version 5)

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Kahlil Gibran


The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…

11 - As to Saurians and Others

In A House-Boat on the Styx

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John Kendrick Bangs


The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of …

092 - Dinners and Dining. Chapter 40. Part 4.

In The Book of Household Management

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Isabella Beeton and Mrs. Isabella Beeton


"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…

The House at Auteuil, altenate version

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexabdre Dumas and Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

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