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Julia Kavanagh - Rachel Gray

Kavanagh's books feature strong young women, like herself, and had much popular appeal among that audience during her lifetime. She lived most of her life in France, caring for her invalid mother, remaining unmarried....

Lynne T 5 hours 17 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Francis Marion Crawford - Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2

Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy parental home by marrying and Katherine plans to do the same, but her father has...

Lynne T 7 hours 43 minutes Katharine Lauderdale

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Published 1800 -1900

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Francis Marion Crawford - Katharine Lauderdale Volume 1

Katharine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy parental home by marrying and Katherine plans to do the same, but her father has...

Lynne T 7 hours 46 minutes Katharine Lauderdale

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Anthony Trollope - Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral property to go to his daughter, Emily, and hopes that a future husband will...

Simon Evers 6 hours 54 minutes

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Maarten Maartens - God's fool

At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never really grows up. Years later, circumstances make him the richest man in town...

Anna Simon 14 hours 46 minutes

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Guy de Maupassant - Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne

Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to «take the waters» with her husband, described as «a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off.» But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects,...

Lisa Reichert and 4 more 9 hours 42 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Alice Mangold Diehl - Dr Paull's Theory

Hugh Paull's training in a London hospital is nearly complete, and he will soon be qualified as a doctor. But what fate is in store for him? What destiny links him to the family of one of his patients? And how will he...

Newgatenovelist 8 hours 22 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

Ivan Turgenev - Rudin

Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. The story focuses on a romantic involvement between Rudin...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 51 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Wyllard's Weird

A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary...

Lynne T 17 hours 19 minutes

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Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest (abridged)

Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tragic tale tells the story of Effi, a young woman from an old and respectable...

Margaret Espaillat 8 hours 51 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

«Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life» was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 — only a few months after the Communist Manifesto...

Tony Foster 15 hours 40 minutes

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Hamlin Garland - Spirit of Sweetwater

Clement had unwittingly succeeded where others had failed at mining in the western Colorado mountains. Now he found himself wanting to share his success with some deserving soul, and one day found a young dying woman...

Roger Melin 1 hour 54 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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