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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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Ouida - Dog of Flanders

«Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world.» So begins the poignant story of the two orphans who were to become inseparable companions. They were Nello, an orphaned youth, and Patrasche, the dog which he...

Roger Melin 1 hour 52 minutes

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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2)

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Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2)

In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he arrives but finds the transition to heavenly bliss a little disconcerting....

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 28 minutes

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George du Maurier - Trilby

Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin...

Christian Al-Kadi and 7 more 11 hours 12 minutes

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Max Brand - Seventh Man

The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the...

Robert Keiper 8 hours 4 minutes

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Henry James - Spoils of Poynton

The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda Vetch, when both of them find themselves guests in the tasteless house of...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 14 minutes

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Anne Wales Abbot - Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse

The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her...

David Lawrence and 12 more 4 hours 22 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Richard Harris Barham - Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series

The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first...

Grant Hurlock 9 hours 41 minutes

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Harriet Martineau - Deerbrook

A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero. Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional...

Arielle Lipshaw and 6 more 22 hours 7 minutes

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William Godwin - Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary....

Bev J Stevens 16 hours 53 minutes

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John Milton - Samson Agonistes

“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time,...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 37 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759,...

Martin Geeson and 3 more 5 hours 15 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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