Books: What to Know
Adventures in One Sitting
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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7,771 adventure
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An Empty Bottle
Mari Wolf · short story
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An Enemy to the King
Robert Neilson Stephens · novel
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An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked mariners
A. Fothergill · novel
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An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet
Arnold Henry Savage Landor · travel
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An historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators, vol. 1 of 4
David Henry · novel
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An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc
W. H. Le Mesurier · travel
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An island hell: A Soviet prison in the far north
S. A. Malʹsagov · biography
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An Ocean Tragedy
William Clark Russell · novel
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An Old Sailor's Yarns
N. Ames · short story
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An Outback Marriage: A Story of Australian Life
A. B. Paterson · novel
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An outlaw's pledge; or, The raid on the old stockade
Spencer Dair · periodical
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An Undivided Union
Oliver Optic · novel
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An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
Anthony Trollope · short story
The story in one page
Anabasis
A king dies, his mercenaries are stranded, and their walk home is incredibly long.
Xenophon · history
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And we sailed the mighty dark
Frank Belknap Long · novel
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Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
Edward Lucas White · novel
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Andrée and His Balloon
Henri Lachambre · travel
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Andy the Acrobat
Peter T. Harkness · novel
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Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts
David Alec Wilson · science
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Animal Stories from Eskimo Land
Renée Coudert Riggs · myth
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Aniwee; or, the Warrior Queen
Florence Lady Dixie · novel
The story in one page
Anne of Avonlea
Anne starts her career, adopts a pair of chaotic twins, and realizes that romance might not require a knight in armor.
L. M. Montgomery · novel
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Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 1 (of 2)
Walter Scott · novel
The story in one page
Anne of Green Gables
An elderly farming duo requests an orphan boy for help; the orphanage sends an imaginative girl instead.
L. M. Montgomery · novel
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Annie o' the Banks o' Dee
Gordon Stables · novel
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Another Man's Shoes
Victor Bridges · novel
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Anson's Voyage Round the World
Richard Walter · history
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Ant ventures
Blanche Elizabeth Wade · novel
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Anthony the Absolute
Samuel Merwin · novel
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Antoine of Oregon: A Story of the Oregon Trail
James Otis · novel
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Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers
William Henry Giles Kingston · novel
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Apache devil
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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Archibald Hughson: An Arctic Story
William Henry Giles Kingston · novel
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Arctic Adventures
William Henry Giles Kingston · novel
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Arctic angels
A. De Herries Smith · short story
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Arctic exploration
J. Douglas Hoare · travel
The story in one page
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
An anthropologist embeds himself in the Trobriand Islands to map a vast, circular economy built on two types of jewelry.
Bronislaw Malinowski · science
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Arizona nights
Stewart Edward White · short story
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Arizona's yesterday
John H. Cady · biography
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Árminius Vambéry, his life and adventures
Ármin Vámbéry · biography
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Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day
Walter Besant · novel
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Army Boys in France; or, From Training Camp to Trenches
Homer Randall · novel
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Army Boys in the French Trenches; Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy
Homer Randall · novel
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Army Boys marching into Germany
Homer Randall · novel
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Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
Homer Randall · novel
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Army Boys on the Firing Line; or, Holding Back the German Drive
Homer Randall · novel
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Arne and the Christmas star: A story of Norway
Alta Halverson Seymour · novel
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Arnold of Winkelried, the Hero of Sempach
Gustav Höcker · myth