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Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2

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Sir Walter Scott

Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is an adventure and romance novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mai…

Chapter 16

In A Dark Night's Work

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…

The Races of Man in the Malay Archipelago part 1

In The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2

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Alfred Russel Wallace

A fascinating and classic Victorian ethnology of SE Asia, first published in 1869. The author was co-discoverer of evolution, together with …

An Ambuscade

In In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

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G. A. Henty

In this adventure story by the novelist and war correspondent, G.A. Henty, Desmond Kennedy, a young Irishman flees political oppression and …

An Aquatic Harvest

In The Cliff Climbers

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Thomas Mayne Reid

A plant hunter, Karl Linden, and his brother Caspar are on their way to the Himalayas to collect the plants of that region. Many adventures…

Observ. V.

In Micrographia

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Robert Hooke

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…

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