Published 1800 -1900

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Family Life

502

Unknown - Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl

Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm steady faith while her younger sister chafes against the injustice of their...

Jennifer Fournier 8 hours 56 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

460

James Lane Allen - Sister Dolorosa

A Carmelite convent in Kentucky in the nineteenth century. A beautiful immature nun. A handsome immature visitor. A chance meeting. Whither? One might want to compare this story (1890) with an earlier one with a...

David Wales 3 hours 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

631

William Henry Hudson - Purple Land

In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 12 hours 15 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

466

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Charlotte's Inheritance

A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial,...

Lynne T and 4 more 16 hours 9 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

492

Ivan Turgenev - Smoke

Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affair between a young betrothed Russian man and a young married Russian woman,...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

511

Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to...

Gillian Hendrie and 14 more 26 hours 47 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

475

E. F. Benson - Dodo: A Detail of the Day

Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London «society» in the Fin de Siècle. Dodo is a young woman who enjoys belonging to the high society. At the start of the book, she is...

Anna Simon 8 hours 18 minutes

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468

John Galsworthy - Country House

In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth Saga”. This is a novel of English society as 1900 approaches. A divorce is...

Bob R 9 hours 6 minutes

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Literary Fiction

478

Honoré de Balzac - Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles, were...

Bruce Pirie 22 hours 52 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

502

Henry James - Confidence

This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements...

Judi Mason and 4 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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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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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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