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Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

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Laurence Sterne - Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

After the bizarre textual antics of «Tristram Shandy», this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 59 minutes

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Lucy Fitch Perkins - Dutch Twins

This book is the first of a series of stories for supplementary reading the purpose of which is to give children a correct idea of life in different countries, both in the spirit and atmosphere of the story, and in...

Bianca Kramer 2 hours 7 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Pair of Blue Eyes

The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with...

Tadhg 13 hours 30 minutes

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Mary Cowden Clarke - Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice to Lady Macbeth. In her revision of...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 50 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Outlaw of Torn

The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Norman is the...

Susan Umpleby and 1 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Ernest Poole - Harbor

The Harbor was written in 1915 by Ernest Poole. The novel is considered by many to be one of Poole’s best efforts even though his book, The Family won a Pulitzer Prize. The Harbor is a fictional account of life...

Tom Weiss 12 hours 50 minutes

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Ralph Connor - Glengarry School Days

With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. Glengarry School Days (1902), hugely popular in its time, is based on...

Bruce Pirie 6 hours 16 minutes

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Amy Ella Blanchard - Sweet Little Maid

Dimple, the nine-year-old little girl is accustomed to being always the first. She has Bubbles, a little coloured girl as playmate and servant. One day Dimple’s cousin, Florence comes to visit her and they have a...

Diana Majlinger 3 hours 46 minutes

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Sax Rohmer - Hand of Fu-Manchu

Further adventures of Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie as they continue their battles against the evil genius, Dr Fu-Manchu. (summary by Elaine Twiddle)

laineyben 6 hours 32 minutes The Fu-Manchu Series by Sax Rohmer

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H. G. Wells - Story of the Stone Age

This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history... (Summary from the text)

James Christopher 2 hours 10 minutes

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Dolf Wyllarde - Pathway of the Pioneer

The story of seven girls who have banded themselves together for mutual help and cheer under the name of «Nous Autres.» They represent, collectively, the professions open to women of no deliberate training, though...

Grant Hurlock 10 hours 14 minutes

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Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews

«Joseph Andrews… was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as...

Denny Sayers 17 hours 39 minutes

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Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

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Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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