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August Strindberg - Red Room

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities — politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business...

William Peck 10 hours 4 minutes

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Sturdy Oak

At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel. …...

Snapdragon and 6 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Ten Years Later

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou...

Tora and 11 more 19 hours 47 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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W. Somerset Maugham - Magician

The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique...

Delmar H Dolbier 7 hours 57 minutes

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Burton Egbert Stevenson - That Affair at Elizabeth

A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiquitous romantic complication, of course). (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 5 hours 1 minute

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Barry Pain - Marge Askinforit

A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly...

Nigel Boydell 2 hours 12 minutes

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H. G. Wells - Tono-Bungay

Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with the promotion of Tono-Bungay, a harmful stimulant disguised as a miraculous...

Delmar H Dolbier and 2 more 15 hours 11 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Lady Anna

When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative — `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present...

Simon Evers 13 hours 8 minutes

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Charles Norris Williamson - Golden Silence

Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 20 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Wood Campbell. Jr. - Ultimate Weapon

The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a...

Richard Kilmer 3 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - Not Quite Eighteen

Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these...

Bridget Gaige 4 hours 22 minutes

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Henry James - Roderick Hudson

Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student...

Nicholas Clifford 13 hours 21 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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