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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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Day Will Come

It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismisses her dreams until they come true. Who commited the murder? How would the...

Celine Major 16 hours 18 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

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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Published 1800 -1900

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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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Published 1800 -1900

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Émile Zola - Germinal (English)

This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. — Summary by Matt Pierard

VfkaBT 19 hours 4 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Ivan Turgenev - House of Gentlefolk

The novel titled in Russian «Дворянское Гнездо» (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Gentlefolk, A Nest of the Gentry) is considered a sequel to «Rudin». It is the story of...

tovarisch 7 hours 48 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Paul Clifford

Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-education in which this Novel was composed. The contrast between conventional...

Jim Locke 18 hours 49 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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