Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Children's Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Sentimental Tommy

«J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tommy novels, as they are collectively referred to, are also about a child who does...

Sandra Cullum and 10 more 11 hours 45 minutes

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W. Somerset Maugham - Bishop's Apron

«Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose.» Maugham could have added ambitious, hypocritical, and vain. In this engrossing social satire, Theodore...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 35 minutes

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Abraham Cahan - Rise of David Levinsky

Coming to New York from the Russian Empire, Abraham Cahan founded the Jewish Daily Forward to help Yiddish-speaking immigrants adjust to life in New York. He also became a popular novelist, best known for his...

Mark Chulsky and 9 more 18 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

445

Gertrude Atherton - Rezanov

This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806, pushed for the Russian colonization of Alaska and California. «Not twenty...

Lynne T and 6 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Rogue's Life

"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were...

acousticwave and 9 more 5 hours 12 minutes

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Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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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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Maria Gowen Brooks - Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri

Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the 19th century to Byron and Swinburne. In it she tells the story of an...

Grant Hurlock 6 hours 33 minutes

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Herbert George Jenkins - Bindle

Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that «Bindle is the...

Don W. Jenkins 6 hours 36 minutes

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Jane Barlow - Irish Idylls

Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbelievably, an uncertain date of birth, has a turn of phrase that delights and...

James E. Carson 8 hours 34 minutes

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Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov

Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic...

Kevin W. Davidson 6 hours 32 minutes

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Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition

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Horatio Alger, Jr. - Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition

Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dead and in order to pay his minister father's debts, and to help his mother...

Richard Kilmer and 1 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - Satan's Diary

«Satan's Diary», Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919. But a few years ago the most popular and successful of Russian writers, Andreyev died...

Crln Yldz Ksr 8 hours 50 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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