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Elizabeth Prentiss - Aunt Jane's Hero

Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her «hero», Horace, is far different: in the beginning of the story, he is a good but a little...

Jean A and 2 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

George Gissing - New Grub Street

«The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution,...

Bridget Gaige and 10 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society....

Martin Geeson 15 hours 42 minutes

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Family Life

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George Meredith - Egoist

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he...

Martin Geeson and 9 more 22 hours 18 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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E.D.E.N. Southworth - Hidden Hand

«If you will listen to this book, you will meet a cast of unforgettable characters, as different from one another as the sun and moon. But they have one thing in common — all of them hide many, many secrets. The plot...

Bridget Gaige 16 hours 33 minutes

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Romance

Ivan Turgenev - First Love

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The «boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her» story is universal but not, I think, banal — despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 3 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Last Days of Pompeii

Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the...

Ric F and 11 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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Romance

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Anthony Trollope - He Knew He Was Right

He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a willful wife. As is...

Arielle Lipshaw 30 hours 3 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Émile Zola - L'Assommoir

Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism. More than half of...

Martin Geeson and 4 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Leo Tolstoy - Cossacks

The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocrat in love with a Cossack girl. This text was acclaimed by Ivan Bunin as one...

ajmacbeth and 4 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - House to Let

A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 12 minutes

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Romance

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Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree

This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School . The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at the local church and we follow the fortunes of one member, Dick...

Rachel Lintern 6 hours 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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