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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is the...

Nicole Lee 8 hours 58 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

465

James Fenimore Cooper - Prairie - A Tale

The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of...

William Peck 15 hours 48 minutes Leatherstocking Tales

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Historical Fiction

436

Eugène Sue - Gold Sickle

The Gold Sickle; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul is the first part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages, in which he intended to...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 1 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

414

Amelia E. Barr - Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)

The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love...

David Lawrence 8 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

507

George Eliot - Felix Holt, The Radical

«Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the 1832 parliament election, is used...

acousticwave and 11 more 19 hours 8 minutes

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Children's Fiction

519

Evaleen Stein - Gabriel and the Hour Book

Brother Stephen has the heart of an artist and wishes to leave the abbey to travel and see the world. However, King Louis has decreed that an «hour book» be made for his bride, Lady Anne, which in turn causes the...

Laura Victoria 1 hour 57 minutes

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Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Culture & Heritage Fiction

454

Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of...

James K. White 6 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

453

Frances Hodgson Burnett - His Grace of Osmonde

His Grace of Osmonde, being the portions of that nobleman's life omitted in the relation of his Lady's story presented to the world of fashion under the title of 'A Lady of Quality'(Summary by Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Linda Andrus 12 hours 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

441

Alice Turner Curtis - Little Maid of Province Town

Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so that she can be reunited with her soldier father. Will she succeed in...

Arielle Lipshaw 3 hours 33 minutes

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Children's Fiction

506

Joseph A. Altsheler - Scouts of Stonewall

In this third book of Joseph Altsheler's Civil War series, Harry Kenton, a lieutenant in the Southern Army, is on scout patrol in the Shenandoah Valley. He has attracted the notice of the great General Stonewall...

Lucretia B. and 6 more 9 hours 14 minutes The Civil War Series

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Historical Fiction

503

Bolesław Prus - Pharaoh and the Priest

The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the...

Piotr Nater and 13 more 26 hours 23 minutes

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Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

Historical Fiction

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in «The Colored American Magazine» in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Hopkins, a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, historian, and playwright. The book was described...

Novella Serena and 4 more 8 hours 38 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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