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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with — and sometimes against — each other on Blithedale, a communal farm antecedent to those that sprang up later in the 1960s, and similar to...

Jacquerie 8 hours 48 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2

Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood, Sgt. Troy and Fanny Robin. The plot involves love, loyalty, death and...

Tadhg 14 hours 10 minutes

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Guy de Maupassant - Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel

“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him — a power so irresistible that all women yielded to it.” Though firmly set in 1880s Paris, Maupassant's gripping story of...

Martin Geeson 8 hours 15 minutes

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Roswell Field - Romance of an Old Fool

A light-hearted account of a successful middle aged widower who chances to visit the small town in which he grew up to renew old acquaintances and perhaps reflect on his successes since his departure. This visit,...

Roger Melin 2 hours 58 minutes

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Bertrand W. Sinclair - Hidden Places

Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so chooses to roam about a bit seeking a future for himself. He eventually leads...

Roger Melin 9 hours 49 minutes

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Fanny Burney - Camilla

Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels, in her novel Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh!...

Adrian Wheal and 15 more 40 hours 5 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection, Book 2

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was...

David Cole and 2 more 7 hours 36 minutes Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

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Mary Augusta Ward - Marcella

Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward) was a very popular author at the end of the 19th century. The arrival of Marcella was discussed a lot in the London news papers. This popular novel tells about Marcella Boyce, a...

xibu and 11 more 25 hours 20 minutes

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E. Nesbit - House of Arden

This novel describes how Edred and Elfrida Arden and their Aunt Edith embark on a treasure hunt through time — for the famous Arden family treasure. With help from the magical creature Mouldiwarp, they find a whole...

Elizabeth Klett and 3 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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Ouida - Dog of Flanders

«Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world.» So begins the poignant story of the two orphans who were to become inseparable companions. They were Nello, an orphaned youth, and Patrasche, the dog which he...

Roger Melin 1 hour 52 minutes

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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2)

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Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2)

In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he arrives but finds the transition to heavenly bliss a little disconcerting....

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 28 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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