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James Oliver Curwood - Honor of the Big Snows

What unseen force may have brought young Jan Thoreau and his music from out of the barren lands into the remote camp of Lac Bain, forever changing the lives of those few who lived there? What brought him to the home...

Roger Melin 7 hours 10 minutes

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 5)

Persuasion is a regency Cinderella-esque tale of a young woman, the beautiful Anne Elliot, who is persuaded from marrying the Naval officer of her heart. It is now almost nine years since she rejected him. Bonaparte...

Madame Tusk 7 hours 15 minutes

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Albert Payson Terhune - His Dog

Albert Payson Terhune, perhaps best known for his book Lad, a Dog (later turned into a popular movie), was also a breeder of collies and a journalist. Some of his collie lines survive to this day. His Dog is...

Roger Melin 3 hours 11 minutes

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - House of the Seven Gables

«The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and… becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief.» Hawthorne's moral for «The House of the Seven Gables,» taken from the Preface, accurately presages...

Mark F. Smith 12 hours 20 minutes

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John Jeffery Farnol - Money Moon: A Romance

The Money Moon is a light-hearted romance. Jilted in love, our American millionaire hero, George Bellow, takes a walking tour of the Kent countryside to overcome the “Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been”. Along...

John Lieder 6 hours 58 minutes

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - What Diantha Did

Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate the circumstances of women in the early 20th century. Diantha Bell is a...

Betsie Bush 6 hours 16 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 2

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 2

This is volume 2 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in...

Julie VW and 5 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Literary Taste: How to Form It

Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 describe his method for learning to enjoy literature. Chapters 11, 12, and 13...

Timothy Ferguson 3 hours

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Charlotte Brontë - Professor

The book tells the story of a young man named William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school. (Summary from Wikipedia, adapted by Stav Nisser)

Rachel Lintern and 5 more 10 hours 3 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Mary Louise in the Country

The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using...

Sibella Denton 4 hours 33 minutes

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John W. Grey - Master Mystery

While Harry Houdini didn't rise to fame as a screen actor, silent film makers of the day sought to capitalize on his fame. The Master Mystery was Houdini's first such attempt, and it was embraced by the viewing...

Roger Melin 7 hours 52 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Mary Louise

The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym,then continued by at least three others, all using...

Sibella Denton 4 hours 12 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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