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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental children's novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885. It was a runaway hit for the magazine and was...

Mary Anderson and 5 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 1

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Clarica and 12 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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467

Voltaire - Candide (version 2)

Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for...

Ted Delorme 4 hours 5 minutes

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Ford Madox Ford - Good Soldier

The Good Soldier (1915) "… is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a...

Richard Grove and 6 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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587

Elizabeth von Arnim - Enchanted April

It’s a dreary February in post-World War I London when Mrs. Wilkins spots an advertisement in The Times for a small Italian castle for rent in April. She sees another member of her women’s club, Mrs. Arbuthnot,...

Diana Kiesners 10 hours 3 minutes

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597

Ann Radcliffe - Mysteries of Udolpho

Considered a change agent in early Gothic romance; oft-referenced in later literary works or paid homage to by such authors as Jane Austen (influential novel ready by her heroine, Catherine Morland, in Northanger...

Michelle Crandall and 28 more 32 hours 1 minute

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644

Virginia Woolf - Night and Day

Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between...

J. M. Smallheer 15 hours 53 minutes

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660

George Eliot - Daniel Deronda

In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's finest creations, who grows from a self-centered young beauty to a...

Becky Miller 31 hours 49 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jane Austen - Lady Susan

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan , which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady...

2 hours 27 minutes

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Children's Fiction

645

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Elizabeth and 15 more 18 hours 59 minutes

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Marcel Proust - Swann's Way

Swann's Way is the first book in the seven-volume work In Search of Lost Time , or Remembrance of Things Past , by Marcel Proust. It is a novel written in the form of an autobiography. Proust's most prominent work,...

Denny Sayers and 1 more 24 hours 17 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Price of Love

Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with the woman for only a short time, she is taken into the heart of the family. She falls in love with one of Mrs Maldon's descendents, but...

Christine Blachford 9 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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