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Wilkie Collins - My Lady's Money

Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about to complete the letter with which she is to send the note off, an emergency...

ToddHW and 9 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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446

B. L. Farjeon - Devlin the Barber

The stabbing death of a beautiful young woman in a London park at night and the disappearance of her sister; a shocked and heartbroken young suitor; a terrified landlady and her simple husband; a recently unemployed...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 28 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Master Humphrey's Clock

Between April of 1840 and December of the following year, Charles Dickens published Master Humphrey's Clock — a weekly periodical that presented short stories ostensibly read by the title character and his circle of...

Hamlet 4 hours 50 minutes

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Anna Hamlin Weikel - Betty Baird's Golden Year

It seems that all the people close to Betty are going through major life changes. Lois is certainly spending a lot of time with Dunmore Lane these days. Is Betty about to lose her friend and confidante forever? Even...

Holly Jenson 5 hours 59 minutes

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Marie Corelli - Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance

Marie Corelli's book The Life Everlasting examines the world of past lives, mysticism, secret societies and twin souls against a backdrop of a true love based on the highest ideals. The plot follows our heroine from a...

Lisa Statler 14 hours 9 minutes

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Family Life

487

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler - Concerning Isabel Carnaby

Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of her because she is an orphan. But she will surprise everybody. — Summary by...

MaryAnn and 3 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

417

George Eggleston - Man of Honor

New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-established. All goes well; the family relationships are as they should be, perhaps...

Roger Melin 5 hours 54 minutes

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452

Anna Hamlin Weikel - Betty Baird's Ventures

Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is having trouble paying the mortgage, she decides to spread her entrepreneurial...

Holly Jenson 6 hours 37 minutes

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - Lady of the Basement Flat

A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi Mason

Judi Mason 9 hours 4 minutes

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Children's Fiction

480

Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Hoofbeats on the Turnpike

Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 41 minutes

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Zane Grey - Border Legion

The story of a cold hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho border. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Richard Kilmer 10 hours 59 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - After Dark

William Kerby is in danger of losing his sight, which would hit him especially hard as he is a painter. Only rest can preserve it, but a man must eat, and so he and his wife Leah look for other ways to generate a...

Anna Simon and 10 more 15 hours 11 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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