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A. B. S. Tennyson A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems

Fiction
English
12549 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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In the flowery land of Persia Long ago, as poets tell, Where three rivers met together Did a happy people dwell. Never [more]

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Jacqueline M. Overton The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls

Fiction
English
29038 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The pirate, Ralph the Rover, so legend tells, while cruising off the coast of Scotland searching for booty [more]

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Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker The Black Death

The Dancing Mania

Essay
English
43819 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker (5 January 1795, Erfurt – 11 May 1850, Berlin) was a German physician and medical writer, whose works appear in medical encyclopaedias and journals of the time. He particularly studied disease in relation to human history, including plague, smallpox, infant mortality, dancing mania and the sweating sickness, and is often said to have founded the study of the history of disease. [more]

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H. RIDER HAGGARD DOCTOR THERNE

Fiction
English
47737 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Doctor Therne is a 1898 science fiction novel about a plague that sweeps England by H. Rider Haggard. [more]

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H. Rider Haggard Doctor Therne

Drama
English
47739 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Doctor Therne is a 1898 science fiction novel about a plague that sweeps England. James Therne is not my real name, for why should I publish it to the world? A year or two ago it was famous--or infamous--enough, but in that time many things have happened. There has been a war, a continental revolution, two scandals of world-wide celebrity, one moral and the other financial, and, to come to events that interest me particularly as a doctor, an epidemic of Asiatic plague in Italy and France, and, stranger still, an outbreak of the mediaeval grain sickness, which is believed to have carried off 20,000 people in Russia and German Poland, consequent, I have no doubt, upon the wet season and poor rye harvest in those countries. [more]

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George Gissing Veranilda (Fiscle Part-3)

Thriller
English
116642 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Seven Years Long Had The Armies Of Justinian Warred Against The Goths In Italy. Victor From Rhegium To Ravenna, The Great Commander Belisarius Had Returned To The East, Carrying Captive A Gothic King. The Cities Of The Conquered Land Were Garrisoned By Barbarians Of Many Tongues, Who Bore The Name Of Roman Soldiers; The Italian People, Brought Low By Slaughter, Dearth, And Plague, Crouched Under The Rapacious Tyranny Of Governors From Byzantium. [more]

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Jonathan Wood The Day The Drifter Came To Town

Horror
English
5986 Words
Ages 18 and up
30
5

After a terrible plague devastates humanity, a desert Town seals itself off from the rest of the world by building huge walls around them. Years later, when a mysterious drifter arrives at their gates speaking a language they don't understand, it sends a ripple of uncertainty through the community and it's tyrannical leader. Uncertainty that could just allow in the horrors that lurk beyond the Town's walls... [more]

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Dreoilin Mystic

Fantasy
English
188 Words
No Age Recommendation
370
4

After being tormented for twelve years, twin witches: Alanna and Alaina are being sent to another realm, only to discover it's similar to the one they just left. But this world has far more secrets, some that will change their lives forever. Nightmares plague their dreams, nightmares of a secret kept from them their whole lives. Their family and their lives are about to be threatened by a force that even this magical realm is afraid of. [more]

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Charles And Mary Lamb The Works Of Charles And Mary Lamb Iv (Fiscle Part-Vi) Poems And Plays/Part 2

Poetry
English
58718 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Around Him Stood The Ministers Of Fate; On Fell Destruction Bent, The Murth'rous Band Waited Attentively His High Command. Here Pallid Fear & Dark Despair Were Seen. And Fever Here With Looks Forever Lean, Swoln Dropsy, Halting Gout, Profuse Of Woes, And Madness Fierce & Hopeless Of Repose, Wide-Wasting Plague; But Chief In Honour Stood More-Wasting War, Insatiable Of Blood; With Starting Eye-Balls, Eager For The Word; Already Brandish'd Was The Glitt'ring Sword. [more]

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Charles And Mary Lamb The Works Of Charles And Mary Lamb Iv (Fiscle Part-Vi) Poems And Plays/Part 1

Poetry
English
56698 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Around Him Stood The Ministers Of Fate; On Fell Destruction Bent, The Murth'rous Band Waited Attentively His High Command. Here Pallid Fear & Dark Despair Were Seen. And Fever Here With Looks Forever Lean, Swoln Dropsy, Halting Gout, Profuse Of Woes, And Madness Fierce & Hopeless Of Repose, Wide-Wasting Plague; But Chief In Honour Stood More-Wasting War, Insatiable Of Blood; With Starting Eye-Balls, Eager For The Word; Already Brandish'd Was The Glitt'ring Sword. [more]

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