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History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4

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Eliza Haywood - History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4

Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under pressure from the society in which she lives. Betsy learns that sometimes giving way to the role of women within a marriage can at...

Michele Eaton 6 hours 23 minutes

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J. M. Barrie - Tommy and Grizel

This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a...

beyondutopia and 5 more 12 hours 59 minutes

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Lodore

The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic name must be kept. Even more so when lord Lodore dies. His wife and daughter...

Jim Locke and 3 more 17 hours 1 minute

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Portion of Labor

This is the story of Ellen Brewster, pretty little daughter of shoe-mill workers in a Northeastern US town of the late 19th century. After the mill shuts down, her family struggles to make ends meet, but as the years...

VfkaBT and 3 more 17 hours 37 minutes

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov (version 2)

Described as the Great Book of Wonders by Arthur Miller, this everyday tale of fraternal affection, sibling rivalry, obsession, lust, parricide, family intrigue, spiritual faith, death by economic deprivation and...

Tony Addison 46 hours 24 minutes

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Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)

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Steele Rudd - Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)

Chapters XV through XIX of «Our New Selection» «The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eight years he had been thinking of that trip, but something or other always came to prevent...

Son of the Exiles 50 minutes

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What Katy Did at School (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did at School (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Following Katy's recovery in What Katy Did, Katy and Clover go to Hillsover, a boarding school. Together with their new friend Rosamond Redding, or «Rose Red», they form a Society for the Suppression of Unladylike...

Michele Eaton 5 hours 16 minutes

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Charlotte Maria Tucker - Haunted Room

Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vibert. But rumor says that a room in the house that is haunted. Bruce and Mr....

Esther ben Simonides 6 hours 17 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

436

Rolf Boldrewood - Plain Living

Seemingly down-on-his-luck Australian sheep rancher and orchard grower kindly teaches his loving family the value of money through 'plain living'. Fellow fans of Jon Cleary's «The Sundowners», set a generation later,...

VfkaBT 8 hours 13 minutes

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E. M. Delafield - Heel of Achilles

After a difficult childhood, Lydia Raymond, a lower middle class girl, decides to explore her own individuality and climbs the social ladder. Yet, like everything in life, this has a price. This book tells about her...

CJ Plogue 13 hours 21 minutes

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Eliza Armstrong - Teacup Club (Dramatic Reading)

The Teacup Club (For the Advancement of Woman) is formed when Dorothy decides to found an intellectual club of her own — to teach her fiance a lesson! The club’s discussion topics (official) includes Theosophy,...

4 hours 20 minutes

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Ada Leverson - Love at Second Sight

In the final instalment of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, three years have passed since Bruce and Edith's marriage was in danger of collapse. Thanks to Edith's forgiving and patient ways they have put their...

Helen Taylor 6 hours 44 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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