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Dorothy Richardson - Pointed Roofs

Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer ) termed «nous autres,» i.e., young gentlewomen who must venture forth and earn their living after their fathers...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 20 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

929

Alice Muriel Williamson - House by the Lock

What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but...

Roger Melin 6 hours 13 minutes

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Joel Chandler Harris - Nights With Uncle Remus

That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old «Africa man» visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong...

Mark F. Smith 12 hours 40 minutes

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - White Linen Nurse (version 2)

Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, on the eve of graduation, she couldn’t go on with the mask of artificiality and...

MaryAnn 5 hours 15 minutes

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Nella Larsen - Quicksand

Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is a schoolteacher in the American south. As the novel opens, she suddenly decides to...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 3 minutes

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Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2)

Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their...

John Greenman 16 hours 9 minutes

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Romain Rolland - Pierre and Luce

Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted pacifist, and Luce, the free spirited artist in training, and both confused...

Roger Melin 2 hours 50 minutes

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P. G. Wodehouse - Jill the Reckless

Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a smile, in which there is just a tinge of recklessness, she refuses to be...

Don W. Jenkins 10 hours 36 minutes

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Jack London - Martin Eden

Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909, and subsequently published...

Greg W. 14 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

924

Max Brand - Way of the Lawless

He made one mistake in the beginning. He pushed the chestnut too hard the first and second days, so that on the third day he was forced to give the gelding his head and go at a jarring trot most of the day. On the...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 39 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities (version 2)

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it is among the most famous works of fiction....

Paul Adams 15 hours 29 minutes

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Amazing Interlude

It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby afghan. Her beau’s name is Harvey. He has his eye on a little house that is...

MaryAnn 7 hours 5 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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