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Anton Chekhov - Duel (version 2)

Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and compelling human portraiture. In The Duel, the wastrel and libertine Laevsky...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter (version 2)

This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of the New England settlement of Boston, where she lives, condemn her to wear a...

Cori Samuel 9 hours 26 minutes

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Anton Chekhov - Steppe

Little Yegorushka goes off to school for the first time, setting out on the journey in the company of his Uncle Ivan, the local priest Father Christopher, and the fun-loving servant Deniska. Along the way they meet an...

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Henry James - London Life

A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-American manners and a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian London. Summary by...

Deborah Percy 5 hours 22 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Wolf-Leader

Part local legend of a dark and dangerous Wolf-Leader, part childhood memories of his home near Villers-Cotterets, in Aisne, Dumas here penned a chilling supernaturlal encounter between man and the devil. Our hero,...

John Van Stan 8 hours 22 minutes

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Henry James - Princess Casamassima

Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary underground of London in the 1880s; secondly as a psychological study of such a...

Nicholas Clifford 21 hours 34 minutes

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Thomas Mann - Royal Highness

Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live as his neighbor. The novel is a microcosm of Europe before World War I, with...

Margaret Espaillat 13 hours

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Historical Fiction

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Nikolai Chernyshevsky - Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?

Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth century tsarist Russia; translator Nathan Haskell Dole affirms in his...

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William Dean Howells - Coast of Bohemia

William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable society and the dubious bohemian world of Art and Poetry. Cornelia Saunders has...

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Marcel Proust - Swann's Way (Version 2)

«Swann's Way» is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel «In Search of Lost Time.» From the very first page the reader is drawn into the many facets of memory, memory as prompted...

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Henry James - Lord Beaupre

What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by bevies of eligible young women, some beautiful, some less so (some, even, his...

Nicholas Clifford 2 hours 13 minutes

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Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2)

Travel Fiction

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Dorothy Richardson - Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2)

«Pointed Roofs» is the first volume of «Pilgrimage,» a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the «stream of consciousness» technique of writing. In a review of...

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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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