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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Beautiful and Damned

This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Anthony is young, handsome and well-educated. He marries the ravishingly beautiful...

Mark Nelson 14 hours 15 minutes

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Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

Children's Fiction

869

Horatio Alger, Jr. - Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse...

Tori Faulder 3 hours 53 minutes Ragged Dick Series

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the...

mb 13 hours 49 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Tree of Heaven

One of the most heart-breaking of all World War I novels, this family epic was written in the midst of the War itself, and shows the intense emotion generated in ordinary lives by that tragedy. May Sinclair...

Expatriate 10 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Unknown - Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote . Rendered homeless by the arrest of his...

Expatriate 1 hour 34 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Joseph Hocking - Prodigal Daughters

A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly forward to his return home after serving an important but harrowing stint in...

Kate Follis 13 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Montezuma's Daughter

A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his trail of vengeance against the murderer which leads him to the Spanish...

Patrick79 18 hours 33 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (version 4)

This story, about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him, has intrigued me for many years. The translation is by Ian Johnston, not the translator...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 23 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Gustave Flaubert - Temptation Of St. Anthony

An extraordinary work of the aesthetic imagination, cast in the form of a psycho-drama detailing the events of one night in the life of the aged hermit, later Saint, Anthony, in the course of which his claims to...

Tony Addison 6 hours 53 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 6)

«Please sir, I want some more,» the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in Oliver's life. He is soon captured into the service of Fagin and his gang of...

Mil Nicholson 17 hours 25 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - Armand Durand

Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family....

Bruce Pirie 7 hours 41 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Maurice Baring - Lost Diaries

Within these pages find passages from the «lost diaries» of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical, and fictional. — Summary by A. Gramour

Nemo and 5 more 3 hours 35 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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