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Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)

Humorous Fiction

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire...

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Henry James - Siege of London

In this work, first published in 1883, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however, is not a product of the Boston or New York upper classes, but of the...

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 36 minutes

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W. Somerset Maugham - Trembling of a Leaf

A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous «Red,» «Rain,» and «The Fall of Edward Barnard,» the last of which contains the basic story of what came to be one of the most...

OCTL7 7 hours 43 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Henry Hudson - Purple Land

In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 12 hours 15 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Woman in White - version 2

Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among «people like us», Featuring...

Tony Addison 30 hours 8 minutes

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Sigrid Undset - Jenny

Jenny Winge is a Norwegian expatriate studying art in Rome, part of a Bohemian group of friends who explore the ancient City in an intoxicating passion for Beauty. Yearning for an immortal Love, she allows herself to...

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Honoré de Balzac - Another Study of Woman

A series of tales — told by men, of course — about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum a tale of 1831, La Grande Bretèche. That will be read later, keeping it...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 38 minutes

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Honoré de Balzac - Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles, were...

Bruce Pirie 22 hours 52 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Bridge Builders

A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically, Mother Gunga, Goddess of the River Ganga, against the men who confine her power, The Bridge Builders is also a tale of the death of the Gods as their...

Tony Addison 1 hour 40 minutes

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Henry James - Beast in the Jungle (version 2)

One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral essences surviving death and summoning the central character towards — well,...

Tony Addison 2 hours 19 minutes

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W. Somerset Maugham - Explorer

An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKenzie have to choose between grasping happiness that is their due and...

OCTL7 8 hours 17 minutes

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Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation)

Humorous Fiction

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation)

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire...

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