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Richard Meeker - Better Angel

In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. This novel is regarded as «the first American...

Greg W. 8 hours

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Henry James - Pupil

Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an American couple living in Europe in a style not quite matched by their income. Mr....

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 52 minutes

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Upton Sinclair - Moneychangers

A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague witnesses the manipulation and upset of the stock market by high financier Dan...

Margaret Espaillat 6 hours 28 minutes

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Children's Fiction

858

Hans Christian Andersen - Snow Queen and Other Stories

This project features four longer stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective...

Neeru Iyer and 1 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Frank Williams - Harbor of Doubt

Young Code Schofield had lost his schooner May Schofield in an Atlantic gale a few months ago, and now the townspeople on the small island of Grande Mignon off the coast of New Brunswick were beginning to talk...

Roger Melin 8 hours 11 minutes

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Henry James - Sir Dominick Ferrand

«Levity» is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent,...

Nicholas Clifford 2 hours 20 minutes

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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews - Courage of the Commonplace

The short story of a young man who came to terms with himself and became a man on a day when he had proven to be a failure to his family, his friends, his classmates, the girl he liked, and most importantly to...

Roger Melin 1 hour 20 minutes

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American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922

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American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922

This is a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Betsie Bush and 12 more 8 hours 4 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad

Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad is the second of the ten book series of Aunt Jane's Nieces. The story continues with the three much loved girls — the sweet and generous Patsy, the cunning Louise, and the sullen Beth. This...

margo zinberg and 8 more 6 hours 15 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a...

John Greenman 3 hours 6 minutes

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Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

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Laurence Sterne - Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

After the bizarre textual antics of «Tristram Shandy», this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 59 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Fitch Perkins - Dutch Twins

This book is the first of a series of stories for supplementary reading the purpose of which is to give children a correct idea of life in different countries, both in the spirit and atmosphere of the story, and in...

Bianca Kramer 2 hours 7 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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