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Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand

Travel Fiction

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Charlotte Evans - Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand

One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Otago, New Zealand, and her subsequent experiences in the wild new colony. —...

Lewis Fletcher 4 hours 36 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Maria Edgeworth - Absentee

Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords....

Bruce Pirie 11 hours 21 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Sadakichi Hartmann - Schopenhauer in the Air

Sadakichi Hartmann was an art and literary critic who wrote plays, short stories and several volumes of poetry. Hauntingly beautiful, these seven early short stories dance with themes of beauty and death, love and the...

Nemo 1 hour 13 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Beyond These Voices

This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her grandmother to a lonely and monotonous childhood, she has to make her way up in...

Jim Locke and 6 more 14 hours 1 minute

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the...

mb 13 hours 49 minutes

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Family Life

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Sarah Grand - Heavenly Twins

First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub plots, the story examines the role of women and the different opportunities...

Jim Locke and 14 more 29 hours 53 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Silver Bullet

Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the lights in the house are on and all of the doors are open. While trying to find...

Richard Kilmer 12 hours 14 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 5

Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great...

Celine Major 8 hours 2 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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Published 1800 -1900

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Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 6

Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great...

Celine Major 8 hours 15 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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Published 1800 -1900

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Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 4

Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great...

Celine Major 9 hours 53 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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Published 1800 -1900

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Maid Of Sker

Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not an ordinary girl. But why did she have to be saved from the sea by a fisherman? This story is through the eyes of the fisherman, who followed Bardie throughout...

Jim Locke and 1 more 22 hours 10 minutes

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as «A Square», to deride the Victorian aristocracy and...

Linda Olsen Fitak and 1 more 4 hours 31 minutes

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