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Fergus Hume - Opal Serpent

An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparently the heir of his large estate. But another claimant has made herself known...

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 44 minutes

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E. M. Delafield - Tension

When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capable Pauline Marchrose is the successful applicant. This is good news for Sir...

Helen Taylor 8 hours 9 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Secret Pact

PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 27 minutes

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George MacDonald - What's Mine's Mine

Set in the invigorating wilds of Scotland, clans are crumbling and emigrating as their homeland is bought out from under them. The characters quickly become your friends as you identify with and learn from their...

Hannah Mary 15 hours 11 minutes

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Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time

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Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time

Heart and Science is one of Wilkie Collins' didactic novels. It is the story of young doctor Ovid Vere, who fights for his love against all resistance of his family and their immediate circle of acquaintances. The...

deongines and 5 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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Gertrude Atherton - Ancestors: A Novel

Flora, the daughter of a clergyman, grew up the playmate of the castle children but learned early on that a certain prettiness and good breeding did not put her in the same class as her friends. With the sudden death...

Lynne T 20 hours 58 minutes

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Mrs. Henry de la Pasture - Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square

Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady. Jeanne Marney, a country girl, comes to London to care for her ailing aunt....

jenno and 5 more 8 hours 50 minutes

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Henry James - Tragic Muse

Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the «tragic muse» of the title. Her concerns are a bit different: would proper society...

shihping and 5 more 23 hours 15 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - His Last Bow (version 3)

His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, «His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock...

David Clarke 7 hours 10 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers (version 2)

Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the «Chronicles of Barsetshire». It follows on from The Warden, set some years later, with some of the same characters....

Nick Whitley 24 hours 54 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Ivan Turgenev - Torrents of Spring

The Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды), is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner...

tovarisch 6 hours 9 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Family Happiness

After a brief romance, the 17 year old Marya falls in love with the much older Sergyei Mikhailitch, an old family friend, and the two are married. They share an initially blissful life but after moving to St....

EvanJ 2 hours 59 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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