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Booth Tarkington - Guest of Quesnay

This is the story of two young American painters residing in Paris in a moderate way. Others are more flamboyant than them, for example Larrabee Harman, whose life is one continuous scandal, one of which involved the...

VfkaBT and 2 more 6 hours 47 minutes

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Stanley G. Weinbaum - Dark Other

The Dark Other is a horror novel by Stanley G. Weinbaum. The novel concerns Patricia Lane who is in love with Nicholas Devine, a quiet and gentle writer. Devine undergoes sudden changes becoming cold and calculating....

Dan Gurzynski and 5 more 5 hours 57 minutes

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Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories

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Guy de Maupassant - Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories

This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.

James K. White 11 hours 25 minutes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) was Goethe's third novel. It depicts human relationships in a Romantic crucible, and is the sourcebook and inspiration for many literary and filmic adaptations and...

Nicole Lee 8 hours 27 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Sinclair Lewis - Main Street (Version 2)

Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to...

Mark Nelson 18 hours 14 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - New Magdalen

Mercy Merrick is living a difficult life on the streets, but when she meets the young and charismatic clergyman Julian Gray, she desires to leave this life behind and start afresh. She packs her things and volunteers...

ToddHW and 11 more 10 hours 56 minutes

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Émile Zola - Jolly Parisiennes and Other Novelettes

“The Jolly Parisiennes” by Émile Zola is a very clever, brilliant and interesting romance of a “grande passion” with an undercurrent of political intrigue. The plot is ingenious both in conception and execution, while...

MaryAnn and 6 more 8 hours 46 minutes

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Permanent Husband

THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The plot revolves around the intense and complex relationship between...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 20 minutes

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Charlotte Turner Smith - Celestina

Celestina was adopted by Mrs. Willoughby from a convent in France. No one knows who her parents are. Her secret birth causes problems for her in the marriage market. But this novel is not only a courtship novel. It is...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 3 more 26 hours 26 minutes

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Christmas Miscellany 2017

A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)

David Wales 5 hours 5 minutes

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Rose Macaulay - Non-Combatants and Others

Through a variety of experiences of the effects of the First World War, an art student is drawn into pacifism. Rose Macaulay's satirical novel is passionate, and witty — Summary by Anthony Ogus

Anthony Ogus 6 hours 51 minutes

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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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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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