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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions: Ève and David

Ève and David (1843) is the final 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. In the...

Bruce Pirie 8 hours 20 minutes

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Family Life

540

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Lodore

The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic name must be kept. Even more so when lord Lodore dies. His wife and daughter...

Jim Locke and 3 more 17 hours 1 minute

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Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

Literary Fiction

470

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by «Q», the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. — Summary by Amy Gramour

Andrew Dougherty and 10 more 4 hours 56 minutes

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Romance

462

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Pretty Sister Of José

Pepita would rather become a witch than a wife. She's seen too many women, including her mother, wither away at their husband's hands. Popular and respected, our gentle, but fiercely independent heroine immediately...

Kalynda and 4 more 2 hours 11 minutes

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Family Life

495

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov (version 2)

Described as the Great Book of Wonders by Arthur Miller, this everyday tale of fraternal affection, sibling rivalry, obsession, lust, parricide, family intrigue, spiritual faith, death by economic deprivation and...

Tony Addison 46 hours 24 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

441

Francis Marion Crawford - Ralstons

Katharine has married Jack Ralston secretly and hoped to force her rich uncle's hand in assisting him to find a career. After his refusal, she couldn't face her new husband to break the news and a series of mishaps...

Lynne T 15 hours 47 minutes Katharine Lauderdale

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Action & Adventure Fiction

612

Bram Stoker - Dracula (version 3)

Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the...

Kara Shallenberg 15 hours 58 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

514

Knut Hamsun - Pan

Pan tells the story Lieutenant Glahn and his summer in a forest north in Norway. He lives in a hut with his dog Aesop and they spend their days to hunting and fishing. In poetic language, Hamsun paints troubled...

Kathrine Engan 4 hours 11 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

415

Julia Kavanagh - Rachel Gray

Kavanagh's books feature strong young women, like herself, and had much popular appeal among that audience during her lifetime. She lived most of her life in France, caring for her invalid mother, remaining unmarried....

Lynne T 5 hours 17 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

445

Francis Marion Crawford - Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2

Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy parental home by marrying and Katherine plans to do the same, but her father has...

Lynne T 7 hours 43 minutes Katharine Lauderdale

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Published 1800 -1900

459

Francis Marion Crawford - Katharine Lauderdale Volume 1

Katharine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy parental home by marrying and Katherine plans to do the same, but her father has...

Lynne T 7 hours 46 minutes Katharine Lauderdale

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Published 1800 -1900

550

Anthony Trollope - Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral property to go to his daughter, Emily, and hopes that a future husband will...

Simon Evers 6 hours 54 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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