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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Moorland Cottage

«Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to her wish to marry Frank and live for herself. Maggie's plight for independence...

Lynne T and 6 more 4 hours 30 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

444

Thomas More - Utopia (Robinson translation)

Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: written in Latine , by… Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by...

Ruth Golding 6 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

518

B. L. Farjeon - House of the White Shadows

Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a...

Roger Melin 16 hours 47 minutes

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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)

Literary Fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)

A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a humanoid but fails to nurture and educate it after it comes to life. It wanders...

Thomas A. Copeland 8 hours 45 minutes

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Literary Fiction

494

Honoré de Balzac - Magic Skin

Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote «criticisms» of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition...

James E. Carson 11 hours 28 minutes

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Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

477

Henry James - Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)

Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by...

2 hours 15 minutes

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Literary Fiction

494

Herman Melville - Mardi Vol. 2

Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over another--or is it all simply a sham? Mardi is a poetically existential...

James K. White 12 hours 49 minutes

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Literary Fiction

475

H. H. Bashford - Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2

The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. «And who are you, Mr Jugg?» she inquired. «I'm the King of the Bumpies,» he replied. When Marian was puzzled there came a little straight line,...

Inah Derby and 7 more 4 hours 13 minutes

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Historical Fiction

490

Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot

One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to have been an inspiration to Charles Dickens and Henry James as well as...

James E. Carson 11 hours 44 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

516

Anthony Trollope - Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson

Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business doomed from the get-go to utter failure. Its senior partner (the elderly...

Arnold 8 hours 7 minutes

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Literary Fiction

538

1891 Collection

A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 5 hours 51 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

508

Charles Dickens - Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2)

Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens 6th novel, serially published in 1843 — 44. Irrespective of the fact that Dickens considered — «Chuzzlewit is in 100 points immeasurably the best of my stories»- it failed to resonate...

Peter John Keeble 29 hours 53 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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