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Susan Glaspell - Lifted Masks

In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)

Arielle Lipshaw 5 hours 39 minutes

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449

Edgar Wallace - Secret House

A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that...

Don W. Jenkins 5 hours 48 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Marie Corelli - Romance of Two Worlds

The book starts with a young heroine telling her story of coping with a debilitating illness that includes depression and thoughts of suicide. Her doctor is unable to help her and sends her off on a holiday where she...

Amy Gramour 10 hours 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

441

H. C. Bailey - Highwayman

A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been...

James E. Carson 9 hours 6 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

534

Oscar Wilde - Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version)

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised...

Bob Neufeld 9 hours 30 minutes

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Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (version 2)

«The Metamorphosis» is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915 and one of his best known works. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a horrible...

David Richardson 2 hours 14 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - John Caldigate

After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage,...

Simon Evers 19 hours 37 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 4)

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He...

Tadhg 15 hours

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John Ackworth - Clog Shop Chronicles

John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the...

Phil Benson 6 hours 52 minutes

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Family Life

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E. M. Delafield - Consequences

Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. Raised from birth for the privileged life of a wife and mother, Alexandra...

Caroline Driggs 9 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James B. Hendryx - Snowdrift

The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a...

Roger Melin 11 hours 21 minutes

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Bent Twig

Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th — early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a...

Bellona Times 18 hours 14 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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