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Orphaned Jane Eyre, after a childhood spent with unkind relatives and at boarding-school, takes a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and finds herself drawn into the life of its enigmatic, brooding master Mr. Rochester, and the secrets that he and his house both hold.
I have not personally read through the free Kindle version available, so I can't say for sure whether there are any formatting errors or abridgements. If anyone has more information, do leave a comment sharing it; in the meantime, the Project Gutenberg edition should be acceptable.
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In the early 1900s, Edith Ammons and her sister Ida Mary set out by themselves for South Dakota to file homestead claims. Edith's memoir of their experiences, including blizzards, droughts, encounters with claim-jumpers and Indians, witnessing a land rush and running a rural post-office and newspaper, is one of the most fascinating memoirs of the American frontier you'll find.
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A brief, masterful study of the true purposes of law and government—written in the 1840s as a response to the socialism overtaking Bastiat's native France, but accessible and relevant in any century.
A free edition is not currently available for Kindle, though there are several editions for 99¢.
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Anna Katharine Green, sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of Detective Fiction,' was an American author whose career extended from the 1870s till shortly before World War I. Her books are intricately plotted with complicated webs of clues, and full of Victorian atmosphere and melodrama. The Leavenworth Case, published in 1878, was her first novel and an excellent example of her work.
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The delightful children's classic about the boy who never grows up, who whisks the three Darling children off to Neverland for adventures among the Lost Boys and battles with the pirates led by villainous Captain Hook. (The Amazon edition is under the title Peter and Wendy, but it is the same book.)
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Time out from our usual schedule for a Wild Card Wednesday special feature! Looking to load the Bard's complete works on your e-reader? Project Gutenberg has a complete-works file (note: it will probably take a long time to download!), and if you're willing to spend $1.99, the edition from Amazon that I've linked to is well worth it. I have this version myself and have found the formatting clean and the navigation easy.
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LADY BRACKNELL: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Jack Worthing has invented a fictional brother named Ernest, whose identity he adopts in town in order to live a double life, but comic chaos ensues when his friend Algernon decides to impersonate "Ernest" in order to meet Jack's young ward Cecily. Certainly one of the funniest plays ever written!
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The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free:
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
The longest and one of the most famous poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which a sailor relates the story of a voyage, and the horrors that befell on it as punishment for his shooting the albatross that had served as a guide to the ship. If you've read much English literature, you'll probably recognize many lines, phrases and references you've seen other authors make to this famous ballad.
