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Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

Project: Standard Ebooks | 2025-09-15 | Formats: EPUB, KINDLE, KOBO

A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel essays.

That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green

Project: Standard Ebooks | 2025-09-15 | Formats: EPUB, KINDLE, KOBO

Mysterious midnight visitors to a New York mansion are observed by a spinster living next door.

The Mightiest Machine (1935) by Campbell, John W., Jr.

Project: Faded Page | 2023-04-17 (update) | Formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF, TEXT, HTML

The burning was slower now, for each pound of nitrogen had carried down with it three pounds of oxygen, and the atmosphere was almost nothing but nitrogen and carbon dioxide. There was no water in the air, for the nitric oxide absorbed it, drank it greedily. The carbon dioxide was formed from every scrap of organic matter that had been on the planet. There were no fish in the sea, no plant nor any animal on the land, and no bird in the air. The humus in the soil was burned; the very rocks were being eaten by the corrosive, oily stuff. The nights were cold now...

The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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A new hero from Earth reaches Mars and battles a merchant of purloined youth.

Lord Geoffrey’s Fancy (1962) by Duggan, Alfred

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A story of one Sir Geoffrey de Bruyere, ‘the best knight in all Romanie’. His story takes place in 12th century Greece, through hunts and brightly coloured jousting tournaments to gallant battles, fighting for God and for justice against the Infidel Turk.

There Is No Armour (1950) by Spring, Howard

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The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars. It’s told in the first person, and takes the protagonist from a childhood of poverty to the distinction of the Royal Academy.

If you’re new to Howard Spring, here is an excellent starting point.—Paul Magnussen @ Goodreads.

Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

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Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William

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A Lover's Complaint by Shakespeare, William

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Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare, William

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The Phoenix and the Turtle by Shakespeare, William

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The Sonnets by Shakespeare, William

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Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

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The Two Noble Kinsmen by Fletcher, John

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The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark

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Monthly supplement of the Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 16, May 31 to June 30, 1832 by Knight, Charles

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The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15, June 30, 1832 by Knight, Charles

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King Edward III by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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Sir John Oldcastle by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Hammett, Dashiell

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Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?

1984 [Nineteen Eighty-Four] (1949) by Blair, Eric Arthur

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Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime".--Wikipedia.

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) by Sayers, Dorothy L.

Project: Faded Page | 2014-02 (update) | Formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF, TEXT, HTML

When Lord Peter Wimsey comes down to the Bellona club to dine with an old friend he little expected to find the 90 year old General Fentiman sitting quietly by the fire in full rigor mortis. Nor, did he expect to be confronted with a case about which one of the General or his sister, Lady Dormer, predeceased the other. But, seeing that it was a matter of some half million pounds he was delighted to oblige old Mr. Murbles, the family solicitor. It turns out that establishing Fentiman's time of death is going to be a major feat. No one, including his heirs, the staff of the Bellona Club and most of London seems to recall what the General was doing that morning, or when he showed up, opened his newspaper and promptly expired. Worse, what few facts that Wimsey can put together convince him that something was very, very wrong with Fentiman's timely ticking off. Suddenly this is no longer a case of friendly detection but a serious investigation into a murder.

Murder in Vienna (Robert Macdonald #42) (1956) by Rivett, Edith Caroline

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Superintendent Macdonald, C.I.D., studied his fellow-passengers on the Vienna plane simply because he couldn't help it, because he hadn't conditioned himself to being on holiday. The distinguished industrialist he recognised: the stout man he put down (quite mistakenly) as a traveller in whisky. The fair girl was going to a job (he was right there) and the aggressive young man in the camel coat might be something bookish. Macdonald turned away from his fellow-passengers deliberately: they weren't his business, he was on holiday--or so he thought.

Against the background of beautiful Vienna, with its enchanting palaces and gardens, its disenchanted back streets and derelicts of war, E. C. R. Lorac constructs a detective story with all its complexities; an exciting and puzzling new crime story.

The Last Escape [AKA Dishonour Among Thieves] (Robert Macdonald #46) (1959) by Rivett, Edith Caroline

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In this final detective novel to feature Superintendent Robert MacDonald, we find the police officer setting up his retirement plans on a hill farm to the south of Lunesdale. Not quite ready to retire, he buys the farm and installs a young couple to oversee his property while he's away detecting. Meanwhile, one foggy morning Rory Macshane who has just finished his first year of a 10-year prison sentence at Dartmoor sees his plans for escape come to fruition. He has hidden away bits and pieces of this and that over the past year and when the fog begins to thicken while he out on a work-gang he takes advantage of it and disappears into the mist with enough gear to help him truly escape.

About a month after the prison break, MacDonald accompanies the farmer who has been renting the adjoining land on an tour of the abandoned farm house. There they find that someone is lying dead in the house. Is it murder or an accident?—myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2012/05/last-escape-review.html.

The Big Night (1947) by Kuttner, Henry

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When the outmoded space-ship “La Cucaracha” battles against the inroads of space transmission, Logger Hilton must choose between a bright future or a daring venture for a lost cause!--intro.

The Philanthropist and the Pudding (1907) by White, Ethel Lina

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Mistress Murder (One of Those Things) (1949) by Cheyney, Peter

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Die Eroberung der Luft (1907) by Hoffmann, Oskar

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The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky & George Long

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A ex-convict in 19th-century Russia reminisces on his experiences in a Siberian prison.

Little House on the Prairie (Little House #3) (1935) by Wilder, Laura Ingalls

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The novel is about the months the Ingalls spent on the Kansas prairie around the town of Independence. Laura describes how her father built their one-room log house in Indian Territory, having heard that the government planned to open the territory to white settlers soon. The Ingalls face difficulty and danger in this book. They all fall ill from malaria, which was ascribed to breathing the night air or eating watermelon. American Indians are a common sight for them, as their house was built in Osage territory, and Ma's open prejudice about Indians contrasts with Laura's more childlike observations about those who live and ride nearby. They begin to congregate at the nearby river bottoms and their war cries unnerve the settlers, who worry they may be attacked, but an Osage chief who was friendly with Pa is able to avert the hostilities. By the end of the novel, all the Ingalls' work is undone when word comes that U.S. soldiers are being sent to remove white settlers.--Wikipedia.

Biggles Takes Charge (Biggles #56) (1956) by Johns, W. E. (William Earl)

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A strange encounter in a deserted hunting lodge in La Sologne, France begins a desperate errand for Biggles & Co., involving their old arch enemy, Erich Von Stalhein, and ending in a bullet-torn dinghy on a lake in Moldavia.—Dustcover.

The Arctic Legions (1929) by Smith, A. de Herries

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The Council of Justice (1908) by Wallace, Edgar

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The Female of the Species (Bulldog Drummond #5) (1928) by McNeile, Herman Cyril

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Blind Mice by C. Kay Scott

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A woman struggles to save her friendships and her marriage when her difficult and melodramatic mother comes for an extended visit.

Beneath Your Very Boots (1889) by Hyne, Cutcliffe

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2. by Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1 by Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)

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The false assumptions of "democracy" by Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)

Project: Project Gutenberg | 2025-09-11 | Formats: HTML, TEXT, EPUB, KINDLE

Moby Dick — The Whale by Melville, Herman

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The Dunwich horror by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

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The Shunned House by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

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The spirit-rapper — an autobiography by Brownson, Orestes Augustus

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Project Mastodon by Simak, Clifford D.

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The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset & George Long

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In 14th-century Norway, a nobleman’s daughter grows up and faces passion, sin, and filial piety.

Short Fiction by Clifford D. Simak

Project: Standard Ebooks | 2025-09-11 | Formats: KINDLE, KOBO, EPUB

A collection of short fiction by Clifford D. Simak, ordered by date of original publication.

All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare, William

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As You Like It by Shakespeare, William

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The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William

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