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May Sinclair - Mr. Waddington of Wyck

May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way through life caring only for the impressions he makes on others. His...

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Honoré de Balzac - Eugénie Grandet

Eugénie Grandet , first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in a provincial town in...

Bruce Pirie 7 hours 17 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow, Version 2

Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic tone and caricaturish rendering of some characters makes it partly...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3)

The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had «died» in The...

David Clarke 11 hours 51 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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George Gissing - Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing...

Peter Eastman 7 hours 44 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Leo Tolstoy - Childhood (version 2)

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels...

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Alexandre Dumas - Marguerite de Valois

A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of deceased Henry II, is the novel's protagonist set against the infamous...

John Van Stan 20 hours 34 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Harry Johnston - Mrs. Warren's Daughter

Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play, Vivie Warren, an emancipated young woman recently graduated from University,...

Jacquerie 13 hours 39 minutes

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David Copperfield - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings in America

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Charles Dickens - David Copperfield - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings in America

«This short collection of 6 selected scenes from „David Copperfield“ were abridged and performed by Dickens himself during his American Tour of 1867 and 1868.»- Summary by Michael Armenta

Michael Armenta 1 hour 47 minutes

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Ivan Goncharov - Common Story

Alexander Fedoritch Adouev is the naïve, pampered son of Anna Pavlovna, a provincial landowner. He decides to go off to Saint Petersburg, not only to make his mark upon society but also to fulfill his two rosy...

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(William) Winwood Reade - Outcast

For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood Reade’s small epistolary novel “The Outcast” tells the story of a young man...

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Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov - Hero of Our Time (Version 2)

One of the iconic characters of all Russian literature, Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is the ultimate “superfluous man.” An aristocratic rake who loves the game of manipulating the lives of those around him, he...

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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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