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The Scarlet Pimpernel [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Baroness Orczy
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity. During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its g... more info>>
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The Wisdom of Father Brown [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by G. K. Chesterton
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The consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble. In such a place the sea had something of the monotony of a blue-green dado: for the chambers themselves were ruled throughout by a terrible tidiness not unlike the terrible tidiness of the sea. It must ... more info>>
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Mark Twain
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"TOM!" No answer. "TOM!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!" No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service -- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for ... more info>>
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Pride and Prejudice [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Jane Austen
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A match made in heaven it isn't--at the start. Pit the pride of aristocrat Fitzwilliam Darcy against the prejudice of Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and you have a perfect match for disaster. Yet, Mrs. Bennet, determined to find husbands for all five of her daughters, applies her 19th-century wit and wisdom to the task at hand, with charming results.
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Peter Pan [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by J. M. Barrie
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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. Y... more info>>
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At the Earth's Core [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The first book in the Pellucidar series, At the Earth's Core describes how David Innes, the son of a wealthy mine owner, and Perry, an inventor, travel in a "mechanical subterranean prospector" to a land in the center of the earth, peopled by savage half-naked men, savage half-naked women, and a multitude of inimical creatures. A typical Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure tale, At the Earth's Core is a pleasure to read. Pellucidar, the sequel, is also available from Peanut Press... more info>>
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The Secret Garden [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her m... more info>>
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The Thirty-Nine Steps [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by John Buchan
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I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing... more info>>
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Pellucidar [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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In Pellucidar, the second book in the series by the same name, David Innes and Perry continue their exploration of the land at the earth's core, while desperately battling the mighty Mahars, the large intelligent lizards who rule Pellucidar. This sequel to At the Earth's Core (also available from Peanut Press) is told in the matter-of-fact tone that make Burroughs' adventures so easy and enjoyable to read.
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Moon-Face and Other Stories [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Jack London
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John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like a dough-ball upon the ceiling. Perhaps that is why I hated him, for truly he had become an offense to my eyes, and I believed the earth to be cumbered with his presence. Perhaps my mother may have been superstitious... more info>>
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The Land That Time Forgot [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Land That Time Forgot is the first book of three in a series that many Edgar Rice Burroughs fans consider his best work. Bowen J. Tyler, son of an American shipbuilder, is en route to Europe to join the Lafayette Escadrille during World War I when his ship is attacked by a German U-boat. After the ships collide, Tyler helps rescue survivors (including the beautiful Miss Lys La Rue) and capture the U-boat along with a complement of German prisoners. Finding a safe port for a German... more info>>
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Father Sergius [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Leo Tolstoy
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In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empress's, gave his small estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk. This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did no... more info>>
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Warlord of Mars [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Warlord of Mars third in the exciting Barsoom saga, completes the original trilogy which was published from 1912 through 1914. John Carter has been waiting for six months for the Temple of the Sun to rotate and release Dejah Thoris from imprisonment, if she still lives. Before the requisite year is over, enemies of the new world order steal Dejah Thoris from the Temple and spirit her away to the dreaded abode of the lost race of Yellow Men. John Carter must cross half the plan... more info>>
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Out of Time's Abyss [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Out of Time's Abyss is the third and final book in a series that many Edgar Rice Burroughs fans consider his best work. Bradley, first mate of the ship on which Tyler sailed towards Europe in The Land That Time Forgot, and several companions attempt to find a way off the lost island of Caprona. One night Bradley is captured and carried off by a humanoid flying creature. He escapes enslavement from the city of the Wieroo and rescues a lovely native girl, but can they survive to reach ... more info>>
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A Woman of No Importance [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Oscar Wilde
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The Persons of the Play Lord Illingworth Sir John Pontefract Lord Alfred Rufford Mr. Kelvil, M.P. The Ven. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D. Gerald Arbuthnot Farquhar, Butler Francis, Footman Lady Hunstanton Lady Caroline Pontefract Lady Stutfield Mrs. Allonby Miss Hester Worsley Alice, Maid Mrs. Arbuthnot The Scenes of the Play ACT I. The Terrace at Hunstanton Chase. ACT II. The Drawing-room at Hunstanton Chase. ACT III. The Hall at Hunstanton Chase. ACT IV. Sitting-room in Mrs.... more info>>
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The Snow Image [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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One afternoon of a cold winter's day, when the sun shone forth with chilly brightness, after a long storm, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new-fallen snow. The elder child was a little girl, whom, because she was of a tender and modest disposition, and was thought to be very beautiful, her parents, and other people who were familiar with her, used to call Violet. But her brother was known by the style and title of Peony, on account of the ruddiness... more info>>
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Agnes Grey [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Anne Brontė
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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fic... more info>>
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Mr. Standfast [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by John Buchan
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I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a mighty app... more info>>
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The Tin Woodman of Oz [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by L. Frank Baum
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The Tin Woodman sat on his glittering tin throne in the handsome tin hall of his splendid tin castle in the Winkie Country of the Land of Oz. Beside him, in a chair of woven straw, sat his best friend, the Scarecrow of Oz. At times they spoke to one another of curious things they had seen and strange adventures they had known since first they two had met and become comrades. But at times they were silent, for these things had been talked over many times between them, and they found t... more info>>
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Around the World in Eighty Days [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Jules Verne
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Around the World in Eighty Days is one of Jules Verne's most beloved adventure tales. It is 1872, and the opening of the trans-India railway, along with other advances in steam transportation, make it possible to traverse the globe in only eighty days. Or so Mr. Phileas Fogg contends. Fogg, an English gentleman, wagers his entire fortune on being able to complete this journey in the time allotted, and departs that very night with his man-servant Passepartout. They are swiftly fo... more info>>
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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After Lord Greystoke's fortune is embezzled, he returns to the lost city of Opar to obtain gold upon which to rebuild his estate. After being struck in the head and losing his memory, Tarzan returns to the wild while Jane is kidnapped by Tarzan's enemies. The fifth book in the Tarzan series, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar tells how Tarzan regains his memory and his mate. The Tarzan of the Burroughs books is much different than he has been portrayed in most movies. He is a m... more info>>
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A Princess of Mars [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The first book Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote, A Princess of Mars, was originally published in the pulps in 1912 as Under the Moons of Mars. The Barsoom series is second only to the Tarzan series in fame. In this, the first book of the Barsoom series, John Carter describes his recent background as a clean-limbed fighting man of the Civil War. An attack by Indians in the American West drives John Carter to seek refuge in a mysterious cave which somehow aids in transporting him to Bar... more info>>
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Little Britain [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Washington Irving
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What I write is most true...I have a whole booke of cases lying by me which if I should sette foorth, some grave auntients (within the hearing of Bow bell) would be out of charity with me. NASHE. IN the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of LITTLE BRITAIN. Christ Church School and St. Bartholomew's Hospital bound it on the west; Smithf... more info>>
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The Faith of Men [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Jack London
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I wash my hands of him at the start. I cannot father his tales, nor will I be responsible for them. I make these preliminary reservations, observe, as a guard upon my own integrity. I possess a certain definite position in a small way, also a wife; and for the good name of the community that honours my existence with its approval, and for the sake of her posterity and mine, I cannot take the chances I once did, nor foster probabilities with the careless improvidence of youth. So, I ... more info>>
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by L. Frank Baum
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"Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. "Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as 'historical' in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of n... more info>>
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