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Jane Barlow - Strangers at Lisconnel

Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of...

James E. Carson 8 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Henry Dunbar

In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the...

Victoria P and 11 more 15 hours 38 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2)

This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by the practice of slavery in the American South, prior to and during the time...

Larraine Paquette 21 hours 2 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

851

Georg Ebers - Joshua

Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army… and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egypt and his people are being blamed for it. Hosea receives a message from his...

Ann Boulais 10 hours 50 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Three Clerks (version 2)

Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office to provide an entertaining and moving account of...

Anthony Ogus 21 hours 50 minutes

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Romance

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August Strindberg - Father

The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura about their daughter Bertha's future. In order to gain sole custody of her...

1 hour 44 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

880

Sabine Baring-Gould - Kitty Alone

Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupying a promontory in the estuary of the Teign, in the south of Devon. Kate's...

MaryAnn 13 hours 8 minutes

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Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

946

Charles Dickens - Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)

The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemistry, whose personal life has been marred by sorrow and, he feels, by...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 14 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol (version 06)

The tale begins on a Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner. Scrooge has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity or benevolence. He hates Christmas,...

Kara Shallenberg 3 hours 8 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Kreutzer Sonata

Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debate in Europe, America, and Asia on matters relating to sexual abstinence and...

Larry Caplan and 1 more 3 hours 41 minutes

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Family Life

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Charles Dickens - Chimes

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the «Hungry Forties», a time...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 11 minutes

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Romance

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Kate Douglas Wiggin - Romance of a Christmas Card

The story of the mission of two Christmas cards written by a minister’s wife. These cards find their way to two straying sheep from the village fold, who hear through the message in the words, and the little scenes on...

Allyson Hester 1 hour 45 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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