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Florence Roma Muir Wilson - If All These Young Men

Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, «If All These Young Men» is a character study of a group of young 20-something friends in England dealing with the looming, grey presence of the War in their...

Expatriate 6 hours 25 minutes

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Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

Family Life

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Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the victorian marriage. — Summary by Gina Belmonde

Gina Belmonde 2 hours 39 minutes

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Literary Fiction

606

Edith Wharton - House of Mirth (Version 3)

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love. She sabotages all her possible opportunities for a...

Jan Moorehouse 12 hours 55 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Tysons

Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, «The Tysons» is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair...

Expatriate 4 hours 56 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Florence Roma Muir Wilson - Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow

A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the War, seeking a spiritual renewal. Deep in the forest he stumbles fatefully...

Expatriate 6 hours 18 minutes

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Literary Fiction

437

Henry James - Awkward Age

Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society — which leads to complications in her family's social set in London's fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in...

Anna Simon 15 hours 16 minutes

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Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Giovanni Verga - Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, «Rustic Chivalry,» or...

Mary J 2 hours 14 minutes

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Ayn Rand - Anthem (Version 4)

Ayn Rand is best known for her classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. One of her earlier works, Anthem, is a dystopian vision of a world in which “self” has been abolished and people have become nothing more...

Greg Giordano 2 hours 11 minutes

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464

Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Colonel's Dream

In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new...

James K. White 9 hours 5 minutes

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2)

Literary Fiction

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James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of Irish society and the Catholic church,...

Tadhg 8 hours 26 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

444

Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (version 3)

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th...

Bob Neufeld 2 hours 17 minutes

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Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room (version 2)

Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his education at Cambridge and finally to his death in World War I. The prose...

Jesse Bordwin and 3 more 5 hours 57 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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