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422

Maarten Maartens - God's fool

At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never really grows up. Years later, circumstances make him the richest man in town...

Anna Simon 14 hours 46 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

477

Guy de Maupassant - Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne

Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to «take the waters» with her husband, described as «a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off.» But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects,...

Lisa Reichert and 4 more 9 hours 42 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

452

Alice Mangold Diehl - Dr Paull's Theory

Hugh Paull's training in a London hospital is nearly complete, and he will soon be qualified as a doctor. But what fate is in store for him? What destiny links him to the family of one of his patients? And how will he...

Newgatenovelist 8 hours 22 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

465

Ivan Turgenev - Rudin

Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. The story focuses on a romantic involvement between Rudin...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 51 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

441

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Wyllard's Weird

A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary...

Lynne T 17 hours 19 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

471

Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest (abridged)

Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tragic tale tells the story of Effi, a young woman from an old and respectable...

Margaret Espaillat 8 hours 51 minutes

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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

Culture & Heritage Fiction

569

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

«Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life» was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 — only a few months after the Communist Manifesto...

Tony Foster 15 hours 40 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

432

Hamlin Garland - Spirit of Sweetwater

Clement had unwittingly succeeded where others had failed at mining in the western Colorado mountains. Now he found himself wanting to share his success with some deserving soul, and one day found a young dying woman...

Roger Melin 1 hour 54 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

445

Walter Besant - Blind Love

Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besant. The blind love in the title refers to the love of Iris, a woman of...

Tony Foster and 17 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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500

Duncan Campbell Scott - In the Village of Viger

These ten superb short stories of Duncan Campbell Scott, published in 1896, portray humorous, farcical, and tragic aspects of life in the fictional Quebec village of Viger. Scott’s tales of the lives and vicissitudes...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 47 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

535

Mark Twain - More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

«More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain» fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: «Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain» . The missing articles, collected by twainquotes.com , consist of...

John Greenman 20 hours 49 minutes

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692

Martha Finley - Wanted - A Pedigree

Nina Clemmens was adopted as a baby. When her parents die, she goes to live with her religious aunt, who mistreats her because of her temper and her origin. Nina has been haunted by a woman in black for her whole...

Roohi and 1 more 16 hours 57 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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