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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters (version 2)

Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the...

Elizabeth Klett 25 hours 17 minutes

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Selma Lagerlöf - Liliecrona's Home

Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in the same surroundings in the district of Värmland which Lagerlöf knew so...

Lars Rolander 7 hours 48 minutes

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Silas Hocking - Her Benny

A very heart touching story about two homeless children, a brother and sister, living on the streets of Liverpool, England during Victorian times. (Summary by Larraine Paquette)

Larraine Paquette 6 hours 58 minutes

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Pansy - One Commonplace Day

A temperance lecturer misses his train and ends up attending a town picnic. It was a common enough picnic on a commonplace day. But the discussions, actions, and attitudes from that picnic reverberate through the...

TriciaG 8 hours 56 minutes

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E. M. Delafield - Consequences

Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. Raised from birth for the privileged life of a wife and mother, Alexandra...

Caroline Driggs 9 hours 50 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2)

The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Plummer, his beloved blind daughter Bertha, and the harsh old toy merchant...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 54 minutes

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Eleanor H. Porter - Road to Understanding

«If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so difficult to convince him at the age of twenty that he did not want to marry Helen...

Mike Pelton and 1 more 9 hours 42 minutes

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Pansy - Little Fishers and Their Nets

Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and her family is in poverty and hopelessness because of it. Her stepmother has...

TriciaG 8 hours 43 minutes

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Eleanor H. Porter - Miss Billy Married

At the opening to this second sequel to Miss Billy (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, Miss Billy Married), we find Bertram and Billy finally at the altar. Will wedded bliss ensue and are the patter of little feet on...

Katine and 5 more 8 hours 34 minutes Miss Billy Series

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Oliver Goldsmith - Vicar of Wakefield (version 2)

First published in 1766, the loveable and innocent Dr Primrose and his family have given pleasure to all that have read it.The story opens with the vicar losing his fortune and moving to another parish. What follows...

Tadhg 5 hours 56 minutes

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Anne of Green Gables (version 7) (dramatic reading)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (version 7) (dramatic reading)

Red-haired Anne Shirley, the orphan girl mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, has been one of the world's most beloved characters since the publication of Anne of Green Gables in 1908. In this...

9 hours 39 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Carroll Watson Rankin - Cinder Pond

Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The factory was abandoned, and following the habits of small towns, the space between...

Betsie Bush 5 hours 18 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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