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Culture & Heritage Fiction

605

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting...

Michele Fry and 7 more 25 hours 36 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

586

Ingersoll Lockwood - 1900 or The Last President

The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets of New York. The city was paralyzed with dread. Mobs organized under the lead...

CJ Plogue 1 hour 13 minutes

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Romance

631

Edward P. Roe - Day of Fate

A night editor at a New York paper escapes to the country to avoid a nervous breakdown. Providence lands him in the middle of a loving Quaker family in time to save them from being roasted by a lightning strike. Then...

LikeManyWaters 10 hours 49 minutes

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Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Published 1800 -1900

640

Walt Whitman - Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier is one of the few known works of long-form...

Chuck Williamson 2 hours 11 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

534

Robert Louis Stevenson - Catriona

This is a sequel to Kidnapped. Many thought Kidnapped ended quite abruptly. The reason is Stevenson planned on writing a sequel. Catriona takes up the story of David Balfour on the same day Kidnapped ends. He must now...

Wayne Cooke 11 hours 4 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

545

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 7)

Orphan boy Oliver is forced into child labor at an early age, and after a simple plea for more food, finds himself alone in the streets of London, where ultimately he becomes the center of attention for a gang of...

Hamlet 15 hours 58 minutes

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Literary Fiction

605

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 3)

Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradation and impoverishment of the London underworld and its denizens. Dickens...

Peter John Keeble 15 hours 49 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lost for Love

EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; men of professional standing, and their wives. He sought to win friends for...

Celine Major 15 hours 19 minutes

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Romance

580

Edward P. Roe - From Jest to Earnest

As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her friends. She pretends to be a seeker in order to win his affections, but gets...

LikeManyWaters 13 hours 16 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

597

George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. IV

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of...

Jim Locke and 20 more 45 hours 55 minutes

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Romance

513

Edward P. Roe - Opening a Chestnut Burr

Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusioned in love and betrayed in friendship, he returns to visit his childhood...

LikeManyWaters 12 hours 37 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

482

Rosa Nouchette Carey - Doctor Luttrell's First Patient

Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Luttrell cannot find work and Olivia has to take care of the house. The financial...

Jim Locke 6 hours 42 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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