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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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This collection of classic poems were written about childhood between 1881 and 1884. (Published: 2006)
Words: 7965 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
Category: Classic Literature
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
by Charles Dickens
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Ebenezer Scrooge is back, but his are not the only ghosts that haunt this collection of holiday favorites. A collection of classic Dickens Holiday tales. No one can tug at the heartstrings like Dickens. Includes: A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, A Poor Relation's Story, A Schoolboy's Story, and Nobody's Story. Those who think Tiny Tim is a long haired guy with a ukulele really need to read this book!
Words: 49404 - Reading Time: 141-197 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Children's Fiction
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A Country Christmas
by Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott's short romance is about two city debs who go to spend Christmas with their country cousins in Vermont. (Published: 2005)
Words: 11544 - Reading Time: 32-46 min.
Category: Classic Literature
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A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Now an award winning movie, Burnett's children's classic still tugs at the heart-strings. Sara Crew daughter of a British Captain is left in an American boarding school while her father goes off to fight. Treated like a princess, because she is supposed to come into wealth, her life changes drastically when it's reported to Miss Minchin, the head-mistress, that her father is dead and Sara left destitute. (Published: 2006)
Words: 66889 - Reading Time: 191-267 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Children's Fiction
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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by Mark Twain The classic adventures of two boys in pre-Civil War Mississippi. Tom paints a fence, spies on river pirates, and he, and his pal Huckleberry Finn, discover treasure. ISBN 978-1-59431-897-9 Adventure, Classic , Bonus (Published: 1878)
Words: 110485 - Reading Time: 315-441 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Children's Fiction
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
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by Mark Twain The classic adventures of two boys in pre-Civil War Mississippi. Tom paints a fence, spies on river pirates, and he, and his pal Huckleberry Finn, discover treasure. Also available in RTF and HTML formats. ISBN 978-1-59431-897-9 Adventure, Classic , Bonus (Published: 1876)
Words: 70201 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Children's Fiction
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Coscom Blue Banner Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: After spotting a white rabbit with a pocket watch run by her, Alice follows it to a rabbit hole and goes in. Immediately, she is falling deep beneath the earth and discovers a room filled with doors of all sizes. Upon entering one of them, she is whisked away to a magical place where she meets all sorts of spectacular creatures and animals, and has an adventure she will never forget. Through the Looking-Glass: Alice enters a mirror world of her own and soon dis... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 56034 - Reading Time: 160-224 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Fantasy
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An Antarctic Mystery; or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields: A Sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
by Jules Vernes
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During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann Wyss's "Swiss Family Robinson" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket." "Arthur Gordon Pym" (1845) was only one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author had more impact on his writing. Verne acknowledged this debt in his only major piece of literary cri... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 78857 - Reading Time: 225-315 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Fantasy
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An F. Scott Fitzgerald Quartet: This Side of Paradise; Flappers and Philosophers; The Beautiful and the Damned; Tales from the Jazz Age
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Four Books that Defined and Chronicled the Jazz Age! Here in one eBook is the quartet of books that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary immortality. Meet the flappers, the indolent young men, the speakeasies, the gangsters, the illegal hooch, and the easy money that characterized the Roaring Twenties. From This Side of Paradise to Flappers and Philosophers, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tales from the Jazz Age Fitzgerald will light the way on a very special insider's tour of the J... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 352385 - Reading Time: 1006-1409 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Mainstream
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Anne of the Island [Anne of Green Gables Series Book 3]
by L. M. Montgomery
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This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley in the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne leaves her family and her work as a teach in Avonlea to attend Remond College for four years. At first, she lives in a boardinghouse, but later shares a house with her old friends from Queen's, Priscilla and Stella, her new friend Philippa, and Stella's Aunt Jamesina, who takes care of the house for the girls. (Published: 1915)
Words: 76685 - Reading Time: 219-306 min.
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Book of Pirates
by Howard Pyle
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If you enjoyed Pirates of the Carribean, you might enjoy reading about the real buccaneers who sailed there, ruthless men like Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and Henry Morgan, plus a chapter on infamous women pirates like Anne Bonney. (Published: 1913)
Words: 72968 - Reading Time: 208-291 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Young Adult
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Child's Book of Christmas Stories
by Charles Dickens
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A sparkling collection of children's bedtime stories, with a Christmas theme. These are suitable for reading by older children, or for reading aloud to the smaller ones at bedtime. There are enough stories included to use them as an advent activity, by reading one each night to your little ones every night from Thanksgiving to Christmas. (Published: 2006)
Words: 77316 - Reading Time: 220-309 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Children's Fiction
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Christmas Mystery
by William J. Locke
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Short Story. It's Christmas in England and three old men gather to solve a mystery. (Published: 1890)
Words: 5246 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Young Adult
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Christmas Outside of Eden
by Conningsby Dawson
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A Classic Christmas Tale based on the premise that Christmas was Christmas, even before the birth of Christ. (Published: 2006)
Words: 10348 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Young Adult
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Circlular Staircase
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Rachel Innes rents a summer house that is full of hidden rooms and sinister happenings. Chilling horror, romance and rollicking humor permeate this story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. (Published: 2006)
Words: 70012 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Suspense/Thriller
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Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas ( Pere )
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by Alexander Dumas (pere) This enduringly popular tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era follows Edmond Dantes as he prepares to captain his own ship and marry his beloved Mercedes. But on his wedding day, he is betrayed by spiteful enemies and arrested on trumped-up charges. Condemned to lifelong imprisonment, he befriends Faria, a priest and fellow inmate with an escape plan. When Faria dies, Edmond escapes alone. Free at last, and incredibly wealthy, Edmond enters society posing... more info>> (Published: 1844)
Words: 459405 - Reading Time: 1312-1837 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Historical Fiction
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Cruise of the Snark
by Jack London
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Author Jack London sails the South Pacific and visits the Islands of Teipe (Typpe), Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii, and Bora Bora. Join Jack for his adventures at sea and on land, among the cannibals. (Published: 2006)
Words: 79555 - Reading Time: 227-318 min.
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Dick Spindler's Family Christmas
by Bret Harte
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In Rough and Ready, a mining camp in California, Dick Spindler has found gold. He builds himself an impressive house and, decides to invite his family, who always thought he was a loser, to spend Christmas with him. Several surprises turn up, including a pair of orphans and an uninvited grass widow. (Published: 2005)
Words: 6152 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
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A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living, and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, and the beautiful. But Dracula also stands as a bleak allegorical saga o... more info>> (Published: 1897)
Words: 160641 - Reading Time: 458-642 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Horror
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Dutch Courage and Other Early Stories
by Jack London
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Early short stories by Jack London, including his first short story, written at the age of 17, "Typhoon off the Coast of Japan." (Published: 1923)
Words: 32278 - Reading Time: 92-129 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Historical Fiction
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Emma
by Jane Austen
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Emma Woodhouse thinks she is a natural matchmaker but, in the opinion of George Knightley, her brother-in-law, she is little more than a meddler. See Emma make hash out of people's prospects, lives, and social standing This book is a fascinating glimpse into the marriage market of early 19th-century England. From THE original Regency Romance writer! (Published: 2006)
Words: 157477 - Reading Time: 449-629 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Romance
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Emma (Coscom Blue Banner Classics)
by Jane Austen
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Emma loves to play matchmaker between those she cares about, and after her success matching her governess with Mr. Weston, she decides her next project will be her friend Harriet Smith. But first, she must convince Harriet that Mr. Elton is indeed the man for her. However, everything changes when the very man she is trying to link up with Harriet actually cares a great deal about her instead. To further complicate things, Emma soon finds herself taken with her friend Mr. Knightley, a man she or... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 157776 - Reading Time: 450-631 min.
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Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's classic short story about Roderick Usher and the destruction of his family. (Published: 2008)
Words: 7294 - Reading Time: 20-29 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Horror
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First Christmas Tree
by Henry Van Dyke
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A heartwarming Classic Christmas Tale. (Published: 2006) ARIANA Award Winner: Best Cover Art
Words: 7547 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
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Great Ghost Stories
by John L. French
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A collection of great ghost stories from the classics. Be prepared for a restless night with strange sounds and eerie adventures (Published: 1920)
Words: 60301 - Reading Time: 172-241 min.
Category: Classic Literature/Horror
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