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Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, «The Life and Death of a Man of Character». It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of...

Debra Lynn 11 hours 39 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

497

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 2)

This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make “sense” by bringing with it enough assets and income to...

Mark F. Smith 13 hours 28 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth

The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The...

Cynthia Lyons 18 hours 41 minutes

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Satire

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Samuel Butler - Way of All Flesh

<p/>The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It...

Rhonda Federman 17 hours 58 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Eliot - Mill on the Floss

The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform...

Lucy Burgoyne and 17 more 21 hours 15 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey

The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in...

Melissa and 6 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life....

hefyd and 11 more 12 hours 59 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the...

Lucy Burgoyne and 13 more 15 hours 57 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

«David Copperfield» or «The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery» was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it...

valikojohn and 23 more 35 hours 41 minutes

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Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.

Published 1800 -1900

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Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.

«Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street» is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the...

Bob Tassinari 1 hour 30 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 17 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Trumpet Major

Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county. A...

Rebecca Dittman and 9 more 11 hours 49 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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