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Brazilian Tales

«Brazilian Tales» is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period — the end of the 19th century. His comprehensive preface aims at...

Leni 2 hours 57 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

This is the fifth of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home. (Summary written by...

Ralph Snelson 6 hours 48 minutes Tarzan Series

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Joseph Conrad - Nostromo

Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and puts his weight...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 17 hours 40 minutes

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 4)

Several years before the events of the novel, Anne Elliott fell in love with a young and handsome but poor naval officer. She was persuaded by her friends and family to refuse him when he asked her to marry him. Now...

Karen Savage 7 hours 15 minutes

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George MacDonald - Robert Falconer

A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod . (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)

Kenneth R. Morefield 20 hours 35 minutes

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Family Life

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Grace Livingston Hill - Phoebe Deane

Second book in the Marcia Schuyler trilogy. Phoebe Deane lives almost as a servant in her brother's home, tormented by her hateful sister-in-law. Schemes to marry her off swirl around her. Her fate seems to be...

TriciaG 10 hours 27 minutes

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Stephen Crane - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called «the first dark flower of American Naturalism» for its distinctive elements of naturalistic fiction. The chief character, Maggie, descends...

Lucy Burgoyne and 11 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mary Grant Bruce - Captain Jim

This book is about Norah Linton, her brother Jim, her father David and Jim's chum Wally from Australia. They all move to England during WWI because Jim and Wally want to fight in the war. When a Irish friend of...

wendy 10 hours 26 minutes

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Jane Austen - Watsons

This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh printed it in his A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1871. The title is from him....

Gesine 1 hour 48 minutes

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Willa Sibert Cather - Alexander's Bridge (version 2)

Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a mid-life crisis. Although married to his wife Winifred, Bartley resumes his...

E. Tavano 2 hours 40 minutes

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Thomas Peckett Prest - Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2

Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula , which it heavily influenced. Flora...

Roger Melin and 14 more 22 hours 45 minutes

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Voltairine de Cleyre - Selected Essays

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, «the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.» Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was...

Rhonda Federman and 8 more 12 hours 27 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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