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The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 3
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Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in…
The Wheat Princess
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Jean Webster
Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 2
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Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in ar…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 4
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Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 6
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Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 5
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Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in…
Master of the Vineyard
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Myrtle Reed
"Why don't you sell the vineyard?" she asked, though her heart sank at the mere suggestion."Sell it? Why didn't the Ancient M…
The Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night
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Julie de Marguerittes
Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works …
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 (version 2)
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Eugène Sue
Rodolphe is the Grand Duke of Gerolstein, a fictional kingdom of Germany, but disguises himself as a Parisian worker. He can speak in the se…
The Markets of Paris
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Émile Zola
The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of an…
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
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Frances Milton Trollope
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight o…
War and Women
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Mabel Annie Stobart
"The sending of a Women’s Convoy Corps to the Balkans was the result of Mrs. Stobart’s keen desire to demonstrate the ability of women …
Mount Royal Vol. I
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with the emphasis on romance. -summary by Celine Major
Mount Royal Volume II
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with emphasis on romance. - summary by Celine Major
Mount Royal Volume III
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with emphasis on romance. - summary by Celine Major
Out of the Shadow
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Rose Gollup Cohen
In this interesting autobiography we get a very candid look into the life of Rose Cohen, a Russian Jewish girl who immigrates from Russia to…
The Young Pretenders
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Edith Henrietta Fowler
Delightful and touching this wonderful little story should appeal to both the young and young at heart. Having lived happily with their gran…
Dead Love Has Chains
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and…
Philomène's Marriages
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Henry Gréville
'Philomène’s Marriages' is a story of French life, located in Normandy, and also in Paris, and is a translation from the French of a …
The Fatal Three
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Written by one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century The Fatal Three although not as sensational as some of her other novels serv…
The Widow Barnaby
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Frances Milton Trollope
The vain, flirtatious and presumptuous husband hunting Mrs. Barnaby delves into high-class society of which she knows very little leading to…
The Widow Married: A Sequel to The Widow Barnaby
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Frances Milton Trollope
EXCERPT: The existence of Mrs. Barnaby (this name is once more used as the one by which our heroine has hitherto been best known), the exist…
The Day Will Come
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismis…
The Barnaby's in America: Final sequel to The Widow Barnaby
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Frances Milton Trollope
I scruple not to confess that with all her faults, and she has some, I love her dearly : I owe her many mirthful moments, and the deeper ple…
Lost for Love
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; me…
The Interrupted Kiss
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Richard Marsh
Clare awakens in the middle of the night with no idea why. Her husband is not in his bed and as she goes in search of him she runs into her …
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters
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Susan Petigru King-Bowen
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends f…
The Clock Struck One
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Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume was a prolific writer of Victorian murder mysteries and The Clock Struck One is another great example of his inventive plots. Ju…
The Turnpike House
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Fergus Hume
A prolific writer of crime and detective stories Fergus Hume is known for his clever plots. The Turnpike House is another wonderful example …
A Poor Wise Man
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century Americ…
Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation
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Edward S. Van Zile
As the title suggests we are treated to three humourous and curious psychical transpositions in the cases of "When Reginald was Carolin…
The Women of the American Revolution Volume 1
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Elizabeth F. Ellet
Excerpt from Preface: Their patriotic sacrifices were made with an enthusiasm that showed the earnest spirit ready on every occasion to appe…
The Story of the French Revolution
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Ernest Belfort Bax
Preface Excerpt: "The following sketch of the course of the French Revolution was originally published during 1889 in serial form in &q…
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earn…
Gretchen
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Mary Jane Holmes
Rich and sophisticated Arthur Tracy returns to Tracy Park after several years abroad confused and mentally unstable. Initially claiming that…
One Life, One Love
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames.…
The Diamond Pin
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Carolyn Wells
Eccentric and wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell loves playing cruel jokes on her guests and particularly on her niece and nephew who are de…
Bessie's Fortune
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Mary Jane Holmes
The coverup of a murder leads to the search for the dead man's heiress decades later in this delightful 3 part novel by Mary Jane Holmes. He…
The Curved Blades
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Carolyn Wells
In this suspensful whodunit a mean-spirited and wealthy dowager is found murdered in her boudoir supposedly killed once by poison and also b…
The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement
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E. Sylvia Pankhurst
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the…
The Sealed Message
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Fergus Hume
A mysterious message on a record is found sealed in a cylinder. A heroine straight out of a fairy-tale is kept secluded by a guardian with q…
Lena Rivers
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Mary Jane Holmes
If you're a fan of mid-19th Century melodramas with many twists and turns you will love this book. Acclaimed as Holmes greatest commercial s…
My Flirtations
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Ella Hepworth Dixon
Many novels, most notably Hannah Webster's The Coquette, focused on how terrible it is for a woman to flirt before her marriage. "I did…
Vicky Van
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Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells always provides an enjoyable read and this one is probably one of her most intriguing murder mysteries. Vicky Van is a lithe, …
Susan
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Ernest Oldmeadow
Susan is a perfect gem of a maid until suddenly she begins to mess things ups and is so distracted that her mistress Gertrude is determined …
Twenty Years of the Republic 1885-1905
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Harry Thurston Peck
Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole gene…
Faulkner's Folly
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Carolyn Wells
Eric Stannard, wealthy artist and portrait painter of international reputation is found dead in his studio, an etching needle protruding fro…
Rose Mather: A Tale
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Mary Jane Holmes
Fiction merges with history in this novel taking place during the turbulent times of the civil war and the horrors it entailed. Holme's sill…
Alice of Old Vincennes
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Maurice Thompson
This entertaining book of adventure, love and war was a Bestseller in 1900 and 1901. The heroine Alice Roussillon is a brave young woman who…
The Third Volume
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Fergus Hume
A widely publicized and unsolved murder of five and twenty years is brought to the forefront in a best-selling novel entitled “A Whim of Fat…
Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena
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Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious 14 year old at the time of events, we are provided with a rare account of the…
A Strange World
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A compelling story by one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian "sensational novel" serves up the perfect blend of murder,…
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
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James Ford Rhodes
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the gener…
The Girl From Malta
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Fergus Hume
One evening as the P. and O.'s vessel "Neptune" steams away from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith, a young, wealthy Australia…
Nana
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Émile Zola
Excerpt from Introduction:"Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it giv…
The Mistress of Shenstone
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Florence Louisa Barclay
For those of you who enjoyed The Rosary by Florence Barclay, this one will come in as a close second. When Lady Myra Ingleby learns by teleg…
Women of the French Revolution
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Winifred Stephens Whale
(Excerpt) One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored.…
Cousin Maude
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Mary Jane Holmes
When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the do…
Charles Rex
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Ethel M. Dell
Excerpt: "Saltash was thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes; he liked amusement but he abhorred boredom. He was never really wicked unl…
Some American Storytellers
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Frederic Taber Cooper
Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the tur…
Taken at the Flood
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man s…
A Weaver of Dreams
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Myrtle Reed
Delightful and charmingly predictable, this sweet romance will make you reflect one minute and laugh out loud the next. It's the kind of coz…
The Hundredth Chance
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Ethel M. Dell
In this prequel to "Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroi…
Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography
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Walter Geer
Excerpt: "Now that one hundred years have elapsed since the "long-drawn agony" of Saint Helena we think that the time has com…
A World of Girls: The Story of a School
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L. T. Meade
If you are a fan of Girl's School tales this one will definitely not disappoint. Filled with fantastic adventures of midnight feasts, gypsy …
Anybody But Anne
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Carolyn Wells
Narrated in the first person by Raymond Sturgis, Anne's old high-school beau, the story opens with a lavish house party hosted by the Van Wy…
Maggie Miller
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Mary Jane Holmes
From bestselling and prolific author Mary Jane Holmes, Maggie Miller or Old Hagar's Secret COMES a compelling story of deceit, love, misplac…
Napoleon and Josephine 'The Rise of the Empire'
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Walter Geer
FOREWORD: "In the popular estimation the Empress Josephine is crowned with a halo of goodness which makes the task of her biographer on…
The Mistress of Court Regna
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Charles Garvice
On the death of Lord Wharton, beautiful young Claire is shocked to find herself the heiress to Court Regna along with the title, the vast fo…
File No. 113
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Émile Gaboriau
As the story opens the impregnable safe of the Fauvel bank is robbed of 350,000 francs. As the only keyholders are Andre Fauvel the owner an…
The Yellow Holly
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Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume, one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century serves up a spellbinding mystery quite equal to that of his most famous bo…
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette
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Henriette Campan
Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…
Lost -- A Pearle
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Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
The drama, suspense, wonderful characters and the fantastic multi faceted plot in this book will have you turning the pages quickly to disco…
The Count's Millions and Baron Trigault's Vengeance
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Émile Gaboriau
The wealthy Count de Chalusse is struck with apoplexy and dies without a will, leaving Marguerite the orphan (daughter?) he adopted penniles…
North America Vol. 1
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861 he travelled through…
Foul Play
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Charles Reade
Wrongly convicted of a crime, Robert Penfold is condemned to 5 years penal servitude. After a year he is transported on the hulk VENGEANCE d…
North America Vol. 2
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861-1862 he travelled th…
The Mystery of Orcival
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Émile Gaboriau
The Mystery of Orcival is a wonderful example of the brilliant methods of deduction which Emile Gaboriau's "Le Coq" inspired in fu…
Family Pride
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Mary Jane Holmes
Bestselling and prolific American Author Mary Jane Holmes never disappoints. Family Pride is another superb example of the enchanting Victor…
Napoleon and Marie-Louise: The Fall of the Empire
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Walter Geer
FOREWORD: In a former volume, the legend of Joséphine was considered, and an attempt was made to substitute for it the truth of Histo…
The Maxwell Mystery (Version 2)
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Carolyn Wells
Phillip Maxwell is well known for his lavish dinner parties and all who are privileged to be invited to Maxwell Chimneys always look forward…
Under the Guns : A woman's reminiscences of the Civil War
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Annie Wittenmyer
Preface:The stories and reminiscences in this book are true to life, every one of them. They are told just as they occurred, without any att…
The Tracy Diamonds
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Mary Jane Holmes
In Part 1 of The Tracy Diamonds, wealthy, notorious flirt, Helen Tracy sets her sights on the one man who has shown no interest in her. Invi…
A Visit to Paris in 1814
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John Scott
John Scott was a Scottish journalist, editor and publisher. Scott edited several liberal newspapers: The Statesman, which Leigh Hunt founde…
The Whispering Lane
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Fergus Hume
Following the death of her beloved fiancée Roderick, Miss Danby is hounded relentlessly by Dr. Slanton who wants to marry her to acce…