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The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow.
Published: 1912 | Genre: Crime
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde
This beautiful and remarkable little wonder of a book includes "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Wilde is a man remembered for plays like "The Importance of Being Ernest," works like De Profundis a...
Published: 1888 | Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Short Stories
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story ...
Published: 1920 | Genre: Fiction
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The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
Daniel Defoe
The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. One half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa and the later half concerns his life as a pirate. Defoe's description of...
Published: 1720 | Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Nautical
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile, about to be married to a sweetly innocent maiden, learns to his horror that a psychic can see a crime of violence in his palm. The clairvoyant tells Saville that before he can marry his beloved, he must murder a distant relative. What follows is a hilarious account o...
Published: 1891 | Genre: Mystery & Detective, Short Stories
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
When The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1891, it evoked a tremendous amount of hostile criticism, in most part due to its immoral content. Oscar Wilde was identified with the "art for art's sake" movement of the nineteenth century which did not subordinate art to ethical ...
Published: 1890 | Genre: Gothic Fiction
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Heidi
Johanna Spyri
One of the most charming tales in children's literature, Heidi is the story of a five-year-old orphan who goes to live with her grandfather in the mountains. She soon wins his heart and befriends the young goatherd, Peter. Her happiness ends, however, when her aunt takes her to the city...
Published: 1880 | Genre: Juvenile Fiction
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The Underground City
Jules Verne
The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier,...
Published: 1877 | Genre: Action & Adventure
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne
The first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skilfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of ...
Published: 1863 | Genre: Action & Adventure
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Huntingtower
John Buchan
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess...
Published: 1922 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Thrillers & Suspense
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas Hardy
One of the most popular of Hardy's novels, this charming pastoral idyll is a lightly humorous depiction of life in an early Victorian rural community. The story delicately balances the concerns of the Mellstock parish choir with a romance between a member of the choir and the village sc...
Published: 1872 | Genre: Fiction
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Often thought of as Thomas Hardy's best work, not only for the elaborate structure of the plot, where small and subtle details lead to the character's ruin, but in the themes that range from how human loneliness and sensuality can stop a person from trying to fulfill his dreams; to how,...
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In Search of the Castaways
Jules Verne
A message in a bottle is found from Captain Grant of the HMS Britannia. The ship has sunk but Captain Grant is alive. Only he is being held hostage. The children of Captain Grant set out to rescue their father. But to do this they face all kinds of dangers and must travel to the other s...
Published: 1868 | Genre: Action & Adventure
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson's venerated volume of children's poems has prospered during more than a century in print. Here is a comfortable world of sunny gardens and storybooks, where children play with toy soldiers and imaginary friends. You may remember some of these poems from your own c...
Published: 1885 | Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Poetry
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Chronicle Of The Cid
Various
The heroic story of the King Arthur, or the Roland, of the Spaniards, less mythical but no less interesting. Robert Southey's "Chronicle of the Cid" is all translation from the Spanish, but is not translation from a single book. Its groundwork is that part of the Cronica General de Espa...
Published: 1808 | Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Trumpet-Major
Thomas Hardy
Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary ...
Published: 1880 | Genre: Fiction
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The Master of the World
Jules Verne
"It was seen first in North Carolina, or something was, smoking up from a mountain crater. With blinding speed, it roared past cars on a Pennsylvania road. It skimmed the Atlantic, then at the flick of its captain's will dove beneath the waves...It was the "Terror"...ship, sub, plane, a...
Published: 1904 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volume 2
Edward Gibbon
This is Volume 2 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes, covering the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from 180 to 1453, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the beha...
Published: 1781 | Genre: History
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Goody Two-Shoes
Anonymous
Goody Two-Shoes is a children's story. The story is the origin of the popular phrase "goody two-shoes," often used to describe an overly virtuous person. Goody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story.
Published: 1888 | Genre: Juvenile Fiction
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Salute to Adventurers
John Buchan
Andrew Garvald is a young Scottish merchant who has bravely come to make his fortune in a newly colonised America. Outlawed from Virginian society for opposing the London traders' monopoly, his friends are Red Ringan, a pirate and gentleman adventurer and Shalah, an exiled Indian prince...
Published: 1915 | Genre: Action & Adventure