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121 Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincing proofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and, therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar, whose legions trampled the conquered world from Canopus to the Thames, capitulated to her, and Mark Antony threw a fleet, an empire and his own honor to the winds to follow her to his destruction.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Historical
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 855 Votes: 8 | Score: 6.97
Size: 336KB | 59,196 words | Posted:

122 Missing Men by Vincent Starrett

The novel follows an investigator drawn into a perplexing case involving the sudden disappearance of several prominent men in Chicago.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Mystery
Tags: Crime, Mystery, Detective, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 98 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 54KB | 10,423 words | Posted:

123 Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

A scientist, Victor Frankenstein, learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Gothic, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 765 Votes: 6 | Score: 6.67
Size: 408KB | 74,958 words | Posted:

124 Maggie: a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

The story takes place in the slums of New York City and follows Maggie Johnson, a young girl growing up in poverty, neglect, and violence.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Cults, Historical, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 21 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 126KB | 23,383 words | Posted:

125 The Snake's Pass by Bram Stoker

A wealthy traveler who journeys to a small village called Carnacliff in the west of Ireland.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Horror
Tags: Romance, Horror, Travel, Gothic, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 89 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 479KB | 96,098 words | Posted:

126 Sanders of the River by Edgar Wallace

Commissioner Sanders is called upon by the British Government "to keep a watchful eye upon some quarter of a million cannibal folk, who ten years before had regarded white men as we regard the unicorn." Written when world powers were vying for colonial honor, Sanders of the River encapsulates the beliefs and assumptions that motivated such quests. There is religious palava, raiding palava, and all the while, Bosambo, magnificent chief of the Ochori, watches on.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 414 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 315KB | 57,843 words | Posted:

127 The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells

A business man and an eccentric scientist find a way to travel to the moon where they find an advanced alien society
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1425 Votes: 8 | Score: 6.43
Size: 368KB | 68,496 words | Posted:

128 Silas Marner by George Eliot

A quiet weaver who lives in the industrial town of Lantern Yard and is falsely accused of theft.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Coming of Age
Tags: Coming of Age, Drama, Spiritual, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 118 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 382KB | 73,422 words | Posted:

129 The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

A man surviving in a futuristic world ravaged by the plague
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 7531 Votes: 19 | Score: 6.35
Size: 975KB | 175,509 words | Posted:

130 Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells

Mr. Barnstaple, is a journalist working for the newspaper "The Liberal." he, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, it has a utopian socialist, world government. The newly arrived Earthlings pose a grave threat to Utopians, who begin to fall ill. They have to be quarantined until a solution is found. The Earthlings resent this isolation and some of them start plotting to maybe taking over Utopia?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Historical, Science Fiction, Pandemic, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1182 Votes: 15 | Score: 6.20
Size: 449KB | 80,381 words | Posted:
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