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W. Somerset Maugham - Hero

James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for risking his life to save a fellow soldier. However, for...

OCTL7 8 hours 18 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby (Version 4)

After the death of his father, Nicholas must provide for his mother and sister. His wealthy uncle provides him with employment at a boys' school, run by the villainous Mr. Squeers. But when Nicholas has seen enough of...

Hamlet 31 hours 34 minutes

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May Sinclair - Creators: A Comedy

Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary literary friends. She has an intense artistic and intellectual kinship with George Tanqueray, another remarkable novelist. Despite this keen spiritual...

Expatriate 15 hours 46 minutes

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Horace Baker Browne - Short Plays from Dickens

Here is a collection of 20 short plays drawn from various books by Charles Dickens such as Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend. «For the use of Amateur and School Dramatic...

ToddHW 6 hours 35 minutes

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Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life

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Gertrude Christian Fosdick - Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life

Beryl Carrington is a naïve young American artist following her ideals to Paris, where she meets three young men, all also artists and all in love with her. Georges is French-American and a bit wild, with a French...

Expatriate 3 hours 38 minutes

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Xueqin Cao - Dream of the Red Chamber Book II

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of them all. Almost 40 main characters and some 500 minor...

Ravi and 7 more 29 hours 21 minutes

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Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine....

Bruce Pirie 13 hours 45 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Bleak House (version 4)

Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Monthly sales substantially exceeded his previous bestseller David Copperfield....

Peter John Keeble 34 hours 4 minutes

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Anne Brontë - Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Original 1848 Edition)

When Helen Graham moves into old Wildfell Hall with her little son Arthur, the rustic neighborhood comes alive with gossip and speculation, particularly when saturnine Mr. Lawrence (who bears an uncanny resemblance...

Expatriate 17 hours 4 minutes

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Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions: Two Poets

Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new...

Bruce Pirie 6 hours 22 minutes

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Charles Weathers Bump - Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not. — Summary by Amy Gramour

Brice and 7 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

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Samuel Gordon - Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' commitment to improving the lives of working class people leads them to...

Adrian Praetzellis 16 hours 5 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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