Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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John Kendrick Bangs - Autobiography of Methuselah

A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorded history. (Introduction by Matthew Reece)

Matthew Reece 2 hours 27 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

531

Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written...

ashleighjane 4 hours 53 minutes

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536

Barry Pain - Marge Askinforit

A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly...

Nigel Boydell 2 hours 12 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - My Lady Ludlow

This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one of her charges, the young Margaret Dawson. Lady Ludlow epitomizes the...

Rosie and 5 more 7 hours 11 minutes

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Family Life

476

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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W. Somerset Maugham - Moon and Sixpence (version 2)

The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the...

Chip and 1 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

487

Miriam Michelson - In the Bishop's Carriage

Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by its occupants, Nance and her criminal boyfriend, Tom Dorgan, are pulling a...

Lee Ann Howlett 5 hours 28 minutes

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Children's Fiction

546

Kate Langley Bosher - Mary Cary, Frequently Martha

«My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are sure enough children, and real much like the kind that have Mothers and...

Jan MacGillivray 3 hours 51 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Frances Sheridan - Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph — an undoubtedly good and dutiful woman — writes to her friend about everything: her marriage, her...

Rachel Lintern 21 hours 54 minutes

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Ivan Turgenev - Diary of a Superfluous Man

Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype — the «superfluous man», a sort of Hamlet not necessarily dignified with the title Prince: an individual of comfortable means...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 37 minutes

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John A. Joyce - Shakspere: Personal Recollections

A fictitious account of a «friend» of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Rudyard Kipling - Stalky & Co.

Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town, Westward Ho!, is not only unusual in having an exclamation mark, but also in...

Tim Bulkeley 7 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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