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Edith Wharton - Madame de Treymes

Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old flame, Fanny Frisbee, now the Marquis de Malrive. Fanny is separated from her...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 57 minutes

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George Moore - Celibates

The author is considered the first great Irish writer of realist fiction and is said to have been an inspiration for James Joyce. Celibates is a novel of three characters: Mildred Lawson, John Norton and Agnes...

James E. Carson 10 hours 34 minutes

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Robin

Starting with a summary of the 1922 novel The Head of the House of Coombe, which followed the relationships between a group of pre-WWI English nobles and commoners, this sequel, called Robin, completes the story of...

Linda Andrus 11 hours

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Dead Secret

«Everything in life has a price. May be, telling a Secret has the highest. However, not telling may be worse. What will Sarah choose? will she tell the Secret which destroyed her life?» (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Helen Falconer and 5 more 16 hours 18 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Charles Dickens - Hard Times (version 2 dramatic reading)

Charles Dickens' 1854 novel opens with the philosophy of education espoused by the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, who prizes «facts and calculations.» He raises his children, most prominently Louisa and Tom, to...

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In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy

Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. A. Henty - In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy

Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France to serve a French Marquis, despite the rumblings of a revolution. Follow along...

J L Raimundo and 2 more 7 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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E.D.E.N. Southworth - Missing Bride

Prepare yourself for a journey, full of adventures and plot twists which will keep you guessing until the very end. This is psychological romance at it's best. In the war of 1814, an American heiress falls in love...

Helen Falconer and 4 more 10 hours 38 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Paul Creswick - Robin Hood

«Well, Robin, on what folly do you employ yourself? Do you cut sticks for our fire o' mornings?» Thus spoke Master Hugh Fitzooth, King's Ranger of the Forest at Locksley, as he entered his house. Robin...

ToddHW and 9 more 10 hours 24 minutes

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E. W. Howe - Mystery of the Locks

Davy's Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared for river town. So when a stranger showed up one day and bought the old unoccupied house called 'The Locks' one dreary day, the inhabitants of the town were naturally very...

Roger Melin 10 hours 19 minutes

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Oliver Optic - Up the River

Up the River is the sixth and last of «The Great Western Series.» The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close with the...

Stevan Simmons 7 hours 16 minutes

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Unknown - Aucassin and Nicolette

Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the early 13th century by an unknown French author, the work deals with the love...

Leonard Wilson 1 hour 42 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Grace Livingston Hill - Mystery of Mary

Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young woman at the station. She's terrified that she's being followed and asks Dunham...

Lee Ann Howlett 3 hours 49 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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