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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Evelina's Garden

This is a long short story from 1899, approximately 95 minutes more or less, about a mysterious woman living virtually alone on the outskirts of a small New England town in a mansion with a magnificent garden....

Bellona Times 1 hour 51 minutes

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John Luther Long - Madame Butterfly

Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outcast from her relatives. Anxiously she awaits the return of her beloved...

Availle 1 hour 55 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Two On A Tower

The plot concerns two – literally starcrossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night...

Tadhg 9 hours 15 minutes

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Harold Frederic - Damnation of Theron Ware

The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic. It is widely considered a classic of American realism. The novel reveals a great deal about...

Greg W. 12 hours 43 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did (version 2)

Follow the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, through good times and bad. (Summary by Karen Savage)

Karen Savage 4 hours 35 minutes Katy Did Series

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Story of Avis

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a talented painter, and bucks against the constraints placed on women in the 19th...

Elizabeth Klett 10 hours 25 minutes

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Algernon Blackwood - Man Whom the Trees Loved

The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour

Amy Gramour 2 hours 30 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Battle of Life

While «The Battle of Life» is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books — his annual release of a story just before Christmas — this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle,...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 28 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

755

L. Adams Beck - Ninth vibration and other stories

This is a collection of the following short stories: The Ninth Vibration — The Interpreter: A Romance of the East — The Incomparable Lady: A Story of China with a Moral — The Hatred of the Queen: A Story of Burma —...

Linda Andrus 7 hours 55 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Gentle Julia

Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 8 hours 11 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 2)

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in...

Arthur Piantadosi and 1 more 17 hours 28 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

765

Philip Jose Farmer - Rastignac The Devil

French colonists on a planet ruled by reptiles and amphibians are forced to wear living “skins” that subdue aggression and enforce vegetarianism. As children, Rastignac and his reptile friend Mapfarity force...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 59 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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