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131 Origins by Short

Everything begins somewhere... A very short story about how things got started.
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Tags: Humor, Drama, Science, Historical, Travel, Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Time Travel, Aliens, Space, Alternate Universe, Alternate Timeline
Downloads: 2344 | Votes: 124 | Score: 6.24
Size: 2KB | 369 words | Posted:

132 Sir Bertram Speaks by Scriptorius

Sir Bertram Utterside issues a series of pronouncements, not always entirely serious, on a variety of burning social topics.
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Tags: Humor
Downloads: 940 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.24
Size: 70KB | 12,384 words | Posted: Concluded:

133 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: 1127 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.20
Size: 449KB | 80,381 words | Posted:

134 Omega by Bradley Stoke

Omega returns the adult reader to the world of childhood imagination: a world populated by the fantastic, the fabulous and the thoroughly improbable. But a world where adult concerns of poverty, injustice, prejudice, politics and economics are all too real. In this world, the reader is taken on a search for the Truth in a more literal sense than one would expect.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Humor, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 4450 | Votes: 26 | Score: 5.95
Size: 860KB | 154,582 words | Posted: Concluded:

135 Emma by Jane Austen

Beautiful, clever, rich and single Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Romance
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 610 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 862KB | 159,155 words | Posted: Concluded:

136 Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells

One of the earliest books dealing with feminist issues.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Politics
Tags: Coming of Age, Politics, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 926 | Votes: 6 | Score: 5.84
Size: 531KB | 95,757 words | Posted:

137 Professor Jopp's Remarkable Feats by Scriptorius

A series of astounding experiments carried out by the redoubtable 'Sage of Trondheim', with caustic observations from his chief rival, the 'Swedish Savant'.
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Tags: Humor, Science
Downloads: 1129 | Votes: 11 | Score: 5.62
Size: 58KB | 10,209 words | Posted: Concluded:

138 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, and eventually takes her own life.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Drama
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 332 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 1918KB | 349,608 words | Posted:

139 Candide by Voltaire

Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Fan Fiction
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 948 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 193KB | 34,981 words | Posted: Concluded:

140 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Violence, Pirates, Travel, Cannibalism, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 796 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 391KB | 70,970 words | Posted: Concluded:
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