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Tom Swift is approached by Mr. Preston, the owner of a circus, and begins to tell the story of Jake Poddington, Mr. Preston's most skilled hunter.

Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock.

The Blazed Trail is the story of early lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan.

"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917.

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Collected works of Edgar Allan Poe

Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846.

Pellucidar is a 1915 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar.

Most of Hawthorne's early writings were magazine stories subsequently collected in books. His second story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, includes many of his best-known short stories.

Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fianc ̌and decides to become a monk!

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy’s novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895.

Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature.

Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671.

While in the service of India's Nizam of Hyderabad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this clear and lovingly precise Engl