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Augusta Huiell Seaman - Dragon's Secret

Sixteen year old Leslie Crane has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for a some quiet rest and recuperation. While the beach is lovely in October, Leslie...

J. M. Smallheer 3 hours 29 minutes

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Mary Webb - Gone to Earth

«Gone to Earth» is the cry of fox hunters as the fox takes to its den and they lose the chase. Here, Mary Webb tells the story of Hazel Woodus whose understanding of her half tame fox cub contrasts with her...

Rachel Lintern 9 hours 41 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island (version 2)

Anne is off to Redmond College! She will spend the next three years living and learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships. Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne...

Karen Savage 6 hours 44 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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D. H. Lawrence - Women in Love

Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun...

Ruth Golding 25 hours 19 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection, Book 1

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was...

David Barnes and 5 more 8 hours 51 minutes Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

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E. Nesbit - Story of the Amulet (version 2)

The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it...

Padraig O'hIceadha 8 hours 46 minutes

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Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (version 2)

Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governess at the remote Thornfield Hall. She finds a kindred spirit in her employer,...

Elizabeth Klett 18 hours 36 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Old-Fashioned Girl (version 2)

Country-girl Polly Milton visits her fashionable cousins in the city, who make fun of her old-fashioned values. Will Polly adapt to city life? A coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1870. (Summary...

Serin and 6 more 9 hours 26 minutes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise (version 2)

Amory Blaine grew up in a wealthy family and was given an Ivy League education. Without a need to learn a profession, he chiefly dabbled in literature and partying. His school chums were of similar background, and...

Mark F. Smith 9 hours 53 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories

Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection shares but 6/7 of them. (Summary by Carolyn Frances )

Carolyn Frances 6 hours 53 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens the author of Dombey and Son, originally wrote the book in installments which were published from October 1846 to April 1848 under the title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail...

Mil Nicholson 40 hours 22 minutes

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 3)

«All the privilege I claim for my own sex… is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.» In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class...

Moira Fogarty 8 hours 28 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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