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Advance Agent

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Christopher Anvil


Raveling Porcy's systematized enigma, Dan found himself with a spy's worst break—he was saddled with the guise of a famed man! A masterful s…

Monsieur Beaucaire

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Booth Tarkington


A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…

Our Friend The Charlatan

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George Gissing


Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his …

The House of Mystery

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Richard Marsh


The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…

A Book of Scoundrels

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Charles Whibley


An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…

Ann

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Lechmere Worrall


Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex bett…

My First Book (Version 2)

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Various


Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098

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Various


"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…

The Romance of an Old Fool

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Roswell Field


A light-hearted account of a successful middle aged widower who chances to visit the small town in which he grew up to renew old acquaintanc…

Paul Clifford

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…

Reviews

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Oscar Wilde


Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

The Man of Feeling

Read by Jim Locke


Henry Mackenzie


A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…

The Cabinet Minister

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Arthur Wing Pinero


Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

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William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

Society as I Have Found It

Read by John Greenman


Ward Mcallister


Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…

Romance

Read by Mark Leder


Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford


Second of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. The hero and narrator, John Kemp, gets involved with smugglers, Caribbean pirates, …

Heroines of Fiction

Read by Jim Locke


William Dean Howells


This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

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John Locke


John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes th…

The Explorer

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W. Somerset Maugham


An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKe…

Black No More

Read by Jim Locke


George Schuyler


Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)

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