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Black Beauty

Memoir Fairy Tale Novel

This unique tale is narrated by a lovely, gentle horse named Black Beauty and has remained a children's classic since it was first published in 1877....

Black Beauty

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Anna Sewell

Eight Pillars of Prosperity

Non-Fiction Business

It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot...

Eight Pillars of Prosperity

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James Allen

Birdseye Views of Far Lands

Non-Fiction Travel

Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contras...

Birdseye Views of Far Lands

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James T. Nichols

The American Senator

Novel

The novel is largely set in and near the town of Dillsborough, in the fictional county of Rufford. The two principal subplots centre on the courtship...

The American Senator

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Anthony Trollope

Under Western Eyes

Adventure Action History

The narrator, an English teacher of languages living in Geneva, is narrating the personal record of Kyrilo Sidorovitch Razumov. Razumov is a student i...

Under Western Eyes

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Joseph Conrad

The Underground Railroad, Part 5

Biography

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was...

The Underground Railroad, Part 5

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William Still

A Year Amongst the Persians

Religion Travel

Edward Granville Browne travelled to Persia (Iran) as a young man who had already studied Farsi and Turkish, who was fascinated by the culture and lit...

A Year Amongst the Persians

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Edward Granville Browne

Pelle the Conqueror, Volume 1

Novel

The novel follows the character Pelle Karlsson, who immigrates to Denmark from Sweden in 1877 at age eight. At 18, he moves from Bornholm to Copenhage...

Pelle the Conqueror, Volume 1

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Martin Andersen Nexo

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Biography

I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, fro...

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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Mary Jane Seacole

The Pupil

Novel Tragedy

It is the emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult...

The Pupil

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Henry James

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Fiction History

On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned by the local community for being the daughter of th...

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

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Ambrose Bierce

Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia

Essays

Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of El...

Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia

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Charles Lamb

The Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth

Novel

The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature is an 18th-century American sentimental novel written in epistolary form by William Hill Brown and is...

The Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth

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William Hill Brown

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