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121 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: 103 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 382KB | 73,422 words | Posted:

122 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: 7511 Votes: 19 | Score: 6.35
Size: 975KB | 175,509 words | Posted:

123 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: 1165 Votes: 15 | Score: 6.20
Size: 449KB | 80,381 words | Posted:

124 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: 4548 Votes: 26 | Score: 6.14
Size: 860KB | 154,582 words | Posted: Concluded:

125 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: 691 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 862KB | 159,155 words | Posted: Concluded:

126 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: 977 Votes: 6 | Score: 5.84
Size: 531KB | 95,757 words | Posted:

127 The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Tarzan of the Jungle Story
The second book in the Tarzan series and continues the thrilling adventures of the jungle hero as he struggles between the world of civilization and the call of the wild.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Romance, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 635 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 479KB | 89,921 words | Posted: Concluded:

128 Mermaid by Grant M. Overton

The story follows a young girl who is rescued after surviving the wreck of the ship "Mermaid" and adopted by a Coast Guard captain.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Romance, Drama, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1134 Votes: 8 | Score: 5.74
Size: 381KB | 72,728 words | Posted: Concluded:

129 A Daughter of To-day by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Elfrida Bell feels stifled in her small hometown of Sparta, Illinois. All the townspeople, except her dear mother, expect poor Elfrida to marry and live her life as a housewife. Elfrida, however, has other plans. She's too smart to waste her talent in the home the way her mother did. And so she runs away to Europe hoping to find a career as a journalist.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Historical
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1231 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 459KB | 83,390 words | Posted:

130 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: 441 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 1918KB | 349,608 words | Posted:
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