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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Asphodel

Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while… Forget that her...

Jim Locke and 3 more 19 hours 50 minutes

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Olive Schreiner - Dreams

Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earliest campaigners for women's rights. She was also very critical of British...

NoelBadrian 2 hours 25 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Oscar Wilde - Ideal Husband (version 2)

The «Ideal Husband» of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a crime, never had a «past» and never bowed to corruption or influence, or so she thinks…...

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Mary Webb - Precious Bane

Published in 1924, Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb (1881 — 1927) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power of love. Prue Sarn is a farm girl in rural Shropshire during the period of...

NoelBadrian 11 hours 27 minutes

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E. M. Forster - Howards End (version 3)

Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era. The story focuses on three families in England at the beginning of the 20th...

Lynne T and 8 more 12 hours 12 minutes

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Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (version 5)

Inexplicably, young Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning having turned into a large bug. The story follows how him and his family deal with the absurdity of such a situation, leading the reader on a bizarre, dreamlike...

David Derida and 2 more 2 hours 2 minutes

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Myrtle Reed - Flower of the Dusk

Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by disabilities, maintain the joy of life while struggling through sadness and...

Daryl Wor 6 hours 50 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge (version 3)

The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In «Romeo and Juliet» fashion, Chester's son and Haredale's niece wish to marry, but their relatives oppose the union. A...

Hamlet 25 hours 26 minutes

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Maria Edgeworth - Absentee

Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords....

Bruce Pirie 11 hours 21 minutes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Beautiful and Damned

This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Anthony is young, handsome and well-educated. He marries the ravishingly beautiful...

Mark Nelson 14 hours 15 minutes

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Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

Children's Fiction

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Horatio Alger, Jr. - Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse...

Tori Faulder 3 hours 53 minutes Ragged Dick Series

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the...

mb 13 hours 49 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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