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Louis Tracy - Silent Barrier

Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversation between two young women, one of whom is to go to Switzerland. He decides...

Mary Herndon Bell 9 hours 15 minutes

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413

Zona Gale - Miss Lulu Bett

Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight. She is, uncomplainingly, «the family beast of burden,» living in the background...

Jacquerie 4 hours 39 minutes

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477

Frances Milton Trollope - Domestic Manners of the Americans

Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a...

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 50 minutes

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Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

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522

Arnold Bennett - Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands (Summary by Andy Minter).

Andy Minter 10 hours 29 minutes

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Children's Fiction

479

Jessie Graham Flower - Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer

The College Girls Series sees the friends part ways: Grace, Anne, and Miriam depart for Overton College, while Jessica and Nora attend a conservatory. The Eight Originals gather on holidays, but the seven College...

ashleighjane 5 hours 17 minutes Grace Harlowe Series

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Epistolary Fiction

481

Kate Douglas Wiggin - Penelope's English Experiences

Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. Included are scenes in London and the village of Belvern, containing fanciful...

Maria Therese 3 hours 8 minutes

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460

Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy...

Bruce Pirie 12 hours 51 minutes

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462

Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Conjure Woman

Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in «Patesville» (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color...

James K. White 3 hours 39 minutes

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443

Jessie Benton Frémont - Will and the Way Stories

Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where there's a will, there's a way'. (Summary by Roger Melin)

Roger Melin 3 hours 28 minutes

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481

Charles G. Blanden - Omar Resung

Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this convention; the French translation by J. B. Nicolas (1867), the English version by...

Cate Barratt and 5 more 2 hours 32 minutes

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Elizabeth von Arnim - Pastor's Wife

Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England, married in Germany, and then flew to the United States. A tale about a young woman, freed up from the bonds of her family life, to wonder all around in...

James E. Carson 16 hours 19 minutes

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Pearl of Orr's Island

Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse yourself in the picturesque community on Orr’s Island. See the raindrops glistening on the pine needles and hear the waves crashing on the rocks. This is a tale of...

Bridget Gaige 12 hours 26 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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