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Maria Edgeworth - Helen

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in...

Terra Mendoza and 11 more 21 hours 9 minutes

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Stendhal - Red and the Black, Volume I

Stendhal — a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't...

Sandra Luna and 7 more 9 hours 12 minutes

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Edgar Jepson - Loudwater Mystery

Lord Loudwater is found murdered in his house one evening. Unfortunately for Detective Flexen, who is to investigate the case, Lord Loudwater was not a very agreeable sort of fellow and almost every person in his...

Richard Kilmer and 5 more 6 hours 50 minutes

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Sense and Sensibility (version 5 dramatic reading)

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 5 dramatic reading)

The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to...

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Theodore Dreiser - Titan

Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with the help of John J. McKenty and other political allies. Meanwhile, Chicago...

Richard Kilmer 22 hours 24 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne's House of Dreams (version 2)

Anne's story continues with her marriage to Gilbert and their years in the House of Dreams. ( Summary by Karen Savage) Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of...

Karen Savage 7 hours 22 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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A. S. M. Hutchinson - If Winter Comes

If Winter Comes, was in many aspects ahead of its time, dealing with an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, and an unwed mother who commits suicide. According to the New York Times, «If Winter Comes» was the...

KirksVoice 11 hours 18 minutes

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Herman Melville - Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's...

Bob Neufeld 1 hour 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Miriam Michelson - Yellow Journalist

Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on her first big story, she spends most of her waking hours running down leads...

Lee Ann Howlett 8 hours 40 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome (version 2)

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, where an unnamed narrator tells the...

Bob Neufeld 4 hours

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Edna Ferber - Emma McChesney and Company

This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career from stenographer, then drummer (traveling salesman) to owner of her own...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 45 minutes Emma McChesney - trilogy

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Children's Fiction

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Augusta Huiell Seaman - Boarded Up House

What is the secret of the old boarded up house? And what is the answer to the mystery of the long lost letter that is found in it? Best friends Joyce and Cynthia — along with their dog «Goliath», are determined to...

Patti Cunningham and 8 more 3 hours 41 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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