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Edna Ferber - Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed

Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to...

Lee Ann Howlett 5 hours 45 minutes

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Garrett P. Serviss - Edison's Conquest of Mars

Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction novels published in the nineteenth century. Although science fiction was not at the time thought of as a distinct literary genre, it...

Roger Melin and 5 more 7 hours 4 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in...

Arielle Lipshaw and 10 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (version 2)

Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 9 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 12 minutes

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Frank Norris - McTeague

McTeague is a simple dentist who becomes infatuated with Trina, the cousin of his friend Marcus. Trina then buys a winning lottery ticket worth $5,000, and McTeague announces his plans to marry her. But their marriage...

Jeff Robinson 10 hours 43 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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George MacDonald - Lilith

Lilith , written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the...

Pete Williams Pittsburgh PA 10 hours 30 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Kilmeny of the Orchard

Eric Marshall is all that a well brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall & Company empire — and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother...

Sarah Jennings and 6 more 3 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Ayesha, the Return of She

Ayesha, the return of She, is set 16 years after the previous novel She. Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have spent the years travelling the world looking for Ayesha, along the way they experience many adventures,...

fetchboi40369 and 5 more 13 hours 1 minute Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea (version 2)

The second part in the story of Anne Shirley, covering her years of teaching at Avonlea School, before she heads off to college. Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of the...

Karen Savage 7 hours 17 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Saki - When William Came

We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is another — except that this one is set in 1913 and the 'William' of the title is...

Andy Minter 5 hours 21 minutes

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E. M. Forster - Longest Journey

Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman,...

Julie Pandya and 1 more 10 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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