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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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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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Charles Dickens - Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but...

Euthymius 23 hours 25 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno

The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense...

Lucy Perry and 10 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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George Eliot - Middlemarch

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's...

Guntar and 16 more 33 hours 1 minute

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. The book portrays a parricide in which...

Sarah Bean and 26 more 37 hours 56 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers

This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is...

Andy Minter and 9 more 22 hours 25 minutes

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George Eliot - Silas Marner

Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever...

rachelellen 6 hours 46 minutes

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if...

Greg and 5 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists...

Mary Anderson and 14 more 27 hours 16 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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