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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Run to Earth

A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, and suspense. (Introduction by Gail Mattern)

Gail Mattern 19 hours 29 minutes

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447

William Beckford - History of the Caliph Vathek

This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not enough for him. He seeks also forbidden knowledge, and doesn't care who he...

MorganScorpion 3 hours 51 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Touchstone

Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain....

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 40 minutes

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Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year

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Florence Louisa Barclay - Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year

Ronald West has a brilliant idea for his next novel, but to do it right, he wants to spend the next six months tramping around central Africa to experience the setting first hand. His wife Helen fully supports his...

MaryAnn 4 hours 15 minutes

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Charles Clark Munn - Pocket Island

Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds...

Roger Melin 5 hours 20 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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F. Anstey - Brass Bottle

What happens when a not-so-lucky man happens upon a brass bottle releases the djinni caught within? Misunderstanding, culture shock, hilarity, among other things. Will the well-intentioned djinni help his new master?...

Adrian Wheal and 5 more 7 hours 6 minutes

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Mrs. C. M. Livingston - Divers Women

A collection of short stories, highlighting some of the best and worst characteristics we women are capable of in our Christianity and in our home life. (Summary by TriciaG)

TriciaG 5 hours 42 minutes

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Katherine Mansfield - In a German Pension

The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the first...

skoval 3 hours 36 minutes

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Sōseki Natsume - Botchan

Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival there is not very lucky: The pupils are bound to test his perseverance and...

Availle 5 hours 7 minutes

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Harold Bell Wright - Their Yesterdays

The story of a man and a woman, as they experience The Thirteen Truly Great Things of Life: Dreams, Occupation, Knowledge, Ignorance, Religion, Tradition, Temptation, Life, Death, Failure, Success, Love, and...

Megan Kunkel 6 hours 4 minutes

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Nella Larsen - Passing

Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her second novel published in 1929, she examines the troubled friendship between...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 29 minutes

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Stuart Mason - Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality

“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?” “We are dominated by journalism… Journalism governs for ever and ever.”[/i]...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 56 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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