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So you've found my little library. If you're like me, and love books, and savor the thrill of finding those rich treasures hidden away in musty old book shops and quaint small town libraries, then you'll absolutely love this site. I've collected as many of the wonderful, public-domain books that I can find, and have attempted to present them in as relaxed and realistic way as possible. I've tried my best to make the pages look like actual pages from a book. If I could put that wonderful old-book smell into code, I'd do it.

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Half a Life-Time Ago

Elizabeth Gaskell

Harold MacGrath

Ralph Henry Barbour

The Hallam Succession

William Shakespeare

The Hand
Of
Ethelberta

Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson

The Happy Family

Charles Dickens

Harlequin
And
Columbine

Booth Tarkington

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Harriet
And The
Piper

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Gene Stratton-Porter

The Haunted Baronet

Joseph Sheridan LeFanu

The Haunted Bookshop

Christopher Morley

E. Phillips Oppenheim

He Fell
In
Love With His Wife

Edward Payson Roe

Head
And
Shoulders

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Head
Of
Kay's

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

The Head
Of The
House
Of
Coombe

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Thomas Love Peacock

James Fenimore Cooper

Heart
Of
Darkness

The Heart
Of
Mid-Lothian

The Heart
Of
Rachael

Kathleen Thompson Norris

The Heart
Of
Rome

F. Marion Crawford

The Heart
Of The
Hills

Heart
Of The
Sunset

Rex Ellingwood Beach

Charlotte M. Yonge

Hector's Inheritance

Horatio Alger Jr.

The Heir
Of
Redclyffe

Charlotte M. Yonge

Maria Edgeworth

Helping Himself

Horatio Alger Jr.

Henrietta’s Wish

Charlotte M. Yonge

Her Father's Daughter

Gene Stratton-Porter

Her Prairie Knight

The Heralds
Of
Fame

Herbert Carter's Legacy

Horatio Alger Jr.

The Herd Boy
And His
Hermit

Charlotte M. Yonge

The Herd Boy
And His
Hermit

Charlotte M. Yonge

The Heritage
Of The
Desert

The Heritage
Of The
Sioux

The Hermit
Of
Far End

Margaret Pedler

Gustave Flaubert

The High School Boys
In
Summer Camp

H. Irving Hancock

The High School Boys' Canoe Club

H. Irving Hancock

The High School Boys' Fishing Trip

H. Irving Hancock

The High School Boys' Training Hike

H. Irving Hancock

The High School Captain
Of The
Team

H. Irving Hancock

The High School Freshmen

H. Irving Hancock

The High School Left End

H. Irving Hancock

The High School Pitcher

H. Irving Hancock

Hildegarde's Neighbors

Laura E. Richards

Booth Tarkington

His Sombre Rivals

Edward Payson Roe

The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series

Rafael Sabatini

The Historical Nights' Entertainment

Rafael Sabatini

The History
Of
Henry Esmond, Esq.

William Makepeace Thackary

The History
Of
Mr. Polly

The History
Of
Pendennis

William Makepeace Thackary

History
Of The
Destruction
Of
Jerusalem

Flavius Josephus

The History
Of The
Next French Revolution

William Makepeace Thackary

The Hohenzollerns
In
America

Stephen Leacock

Holidays
At
Roselands

Charles Dickens

The Holy Bible — Reference
And
Study

Our Father in Heaven

Edward Payson Roe

George MacDonald

James Fenimore Cooper

The Honor
Of The
Big Snows

The Honor
Of The
Name

The Hosts
Of The
Air

Joseph A. Altsheler

The Hound
Of The
Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hour
Of The
Dragon

Robert E. Howard

The House Behind
The
Cedars

Charles W. Chesnutt

A House
Of
Gentlefolk

Ivan S. Turgenev

The House
Of The
Whispering Pines

Anna Katharine Green

The House
Of The
Wolf

Stanley J. Weyman

The House on
The
Beach

George Meredith

A House-Boat on
The
Styx

John Kendrick Bangs

How
The
Two Ivans Quarrelled

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

The Adventures
Of
Huckleberry Finn

The Hunchback
Of
Notre Dame

The Hunted Woman

The Hunters
Of The
Hills

Joseph A. Altsheler

The Hunting
Of The
Snark

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