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Romance

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Edward P. Roe - From Jest to Earnest

As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her friends. She pretends to be a seeker in order to win his affections, but gets...

LikeManyWaters 13 hours 16 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. IV

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of...

Jim Locke and 20 more 45 hours 55 minutes

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Romance

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Edward P. Roe - Opening a Chestnut Burr

Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusioned in love and betrayed in friendship, he returns to visit his childhood...

LikeManyWaters 12 hours 37 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Rosa Nouchette Carey - Doctor Luttrell's First Patient

Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Luttrell cannot find work and Olivia has to take care of the house. The financial...

Jim Locke 6 hours 42 minutes

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Literary Fiction

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Asphodel

Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while… Forget that her...

Jim Locke and 3 more 19 hours 50 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

H. G. Wells - Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to...

Graham Scott and 5 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Arnold Bennett - Clayhanger (Version 2)

A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, Darius, and so works in the family printing business. Edwin eventually takes...

Simon Evers 19 hours 22 minutes

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Satire

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William Dean Howells - Traveller from Altruria

Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor...

Foon and 4 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Sarah Doudney - Vanished Hand

Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It begins with the words: «If I only knew that some one would be kind to Jamie»....

Maggie Mizzi and 4 more 4 hours 3 minutes

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Rosa Nouchette Carey - Mollie's Prince

Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferable, and Waveney has to enter service, the sisters have to part for the first...

Jim Locke and 3 more 14 hours 25 minutes

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Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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R. M. Ballantyne - Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading)

Join us in a journey of two young men in search of adventure as they discover more than they bargained for. — Summary by Linette Geisel (Note: The first two files were discovered in an archaeological dig of the...

Foon 1 hour 47 minutes

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Short Stories

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George MacDonald - Far Above Rubies

Proverbs 31:10-11 says, «Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.» (KJV) With this in mind, George...

Hannah Mary 2 hours 10 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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