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Fergus Hume - Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes...

Grant Hurlock 8 hours 21 minutes

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Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Bampfylde Moore Carew - Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman,...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 31 minutes

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Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

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Washington Irving - Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house....

Greg Giordano 1 hour 59 minutes

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Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

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Giovanni Verga - Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, «Rustic Chivalry,» or...

Mary J 2 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

450

Théophile Gautier - Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the subterranean tombs, of the precautions taken by the designers to baffle curiosity, of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 6 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Friedrich von Schlegel - Lucinda

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe Hübsch. He attended Jena University and made friends with many of the writers...

Craig Campbell 2 hours 30 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Cicely Hamilton - William, An Englishman

William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during the rise of Socialism and the Suffragette movement. It was originally...

Expatriate 6 hours 10 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Christmas Hirelings

It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pack of children belonging to me, I would keep Christmas with the best — keep...

Patti Cunningham and 2 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Moving the Mountain

Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911. The book was one...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko - Peasant Tales of Russia

Collection of Russian peasant tales: «The Deserted Mine» — The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. «Mahmoud's Family» — Escaping prisoners of war should be...

Kevin W. Davidson 4 hours 2 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Descent of Man and Other Stories

This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 8 minutes

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Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children

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William Dean Howells - Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children

Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of «the papa» to «the girl» and «the boy» William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed...

David Wales 2 hours 5 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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