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Fantastic Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Hans of Iceland

Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human...

Sonia 13 hours 12 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Émile Zola - Fortune of the Rougons

The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. In his introduction Zola indicates that...

Peter Tucker 13 hours 14 minutes

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Historical Fiction

537

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke

This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and how to find adventure. But over the course of his career, adventure finds...

Jim Lardner and 8 more 19 hours 43 minutes

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Historical Fiction

449

Arnold Bennett - Great Man: a Frolic

Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a best-selling novel. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Simon Evers 6 hours 21 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Prosper Mérimée - Carmen

On a trip to Spain in 1830, our narrator recounts his encounters with two strange characters: a thief named Don José Navarro and a beautiful Romani woman named Carmen...little does he know that soon, these two will be...

ToddHW and 3 more 2 hours 17 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

492

George Gibbs - In Search of Mademoiselle

Preface note by George Gibbs: There were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts of the French people to gain a permanent foothold on our shores… The most...

Tony Oliva 11 hours 26 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Deborah Alcock - Spanish Brothers (Dramatic Reading)

Juan and Carlos Meñaya have longed to find their father ever since they were little. Their dream starts to get lost, though, as they grow up and go separate ways. Juan goes off to war and falls under the influence of...

12 hours 28 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

479

Alexandre Dumas - Forty-Five Guardsmen

The sequel to «Chicot the Jester» and final book of the «Valois Romances.» This story begins six years after the famed «Duel of the Mignons» between the favorites of the courts of King Henry III and Henry the Duke...

John Van Stan 15 hours 47 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Valley of Decision

Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the free-thinking...

Robert Keiper 16 hours 51 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Maria Edgeworth - Castle Rackrent

«One of the most inspired chronicles written in English» was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth which was first published in 1800. It is recognised as the first true...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

500

Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn

Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh is the first in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike and inspired a Disney movie called the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh starring Patrick Patrick McGoohan. In this...

Brett W. Downey and 3 more 7 hours 37 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Hugh Walpole - Cathedral

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the...

David Wales 15 hours

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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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