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Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son (version 2)

Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business....

Cynthia Lyons 44 hours 35 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

617

Louisa May Alcott - Work: A Story of Experience

It is one of «several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work» The story depicts the struggles...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

545

Francis Marion Crawford - American Politician

In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and the business of making money go hand in hand. A Senate seat suddenly opens up...

Maire Rhode and 5 more 9 hours 28 minutes

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Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna

Published 1800 -1900

562

James Fenimore Cooper - Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna

The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. The Pioneers was first of these books to be...

Gary W. Sherwin and 1 more 18 hours 38 minutes Leatherstocking Tales

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Published 1800 -1900

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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

495

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

589

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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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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