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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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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

503

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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459

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

Travel Fiction

517

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

542

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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511

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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464

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

547

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

565

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

492

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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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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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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