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Anthony Trollope - Lady Anna

When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative — `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present...

Simon Evers 13 hours 8 minutes

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Charles Norris Williamson - Golden Silence

Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 20 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Wood Campbell. Jr. - Ultimate Weapon

The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a...

Richard Kilmer 3 hours 39 minutes

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Susan Coolidge - Not Quite Eighteen

Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these...

Bridget Gaige 4 hours 22 minutes

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Henry James - Roderick Hudson

Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student...

Nicholas Clifford 13 hours 21 minutes

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George Sand - Indiana

This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aristocratic woman living in 19th century France, she chose her first novel to...

Mary Herndon Bell 11 hours

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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world...

thestorygirl and 15 more 8 hours 49 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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Richard Harding Davis - In the Fog

The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called «The Grill,» where an American gentleman arrests the attention of four other men by relating how one night he got lost in a thick London fog. He stumbled...

Bob Gonzalez 2 hours 8 minutes

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Walter De la Mare - Return (de la Mare version)

A story of psychological horror, The Return explores ideas of identity, love, and alienation. Arthur grapples with the reactions of his family and community, and his own sanity, when he experiences a sudden and...

Corinna Schultz 9 hours 27 minutes

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Benjamin Disraeli - Henrietta Temple

The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage to diminish....

Linda Andrus and 18 more 17 hours 31 minutes

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Edgar Wallace - Green Rust (Version 2)

Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill...

Kirsten Wever 9 hours 50 minutes

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Ernest Poole - His Family

The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile, electricity, lighting, radio, telephone and cinema. Our present time of...

James E. Carson 10 hours 31 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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