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Children's Fiction

417

Covington Clarke - Aces Up

A crack American flying troop has been sent to France, where they await further instructions. They are concerned that their extensive talents will not be put to good use in the war. Major Cowan introduces Lt. McGee as...

Bill Boerst 5 hours 57 minutes

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Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Published 1900 onward

463

Honoré de Balzac - Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness , is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginning with a flirtatious conversation at a masked ball, Balzac introduces his two...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 46 minutes

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Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Action & Adventure Fiction

419

Charles Watts Whistler - Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Troy, Athens, Rome… each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world. Havelok the Dane probably derives from a folk-tale, orally passed...

Tony Foster 8 hours 56 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

424

Frank Norris - Third Circle

Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He lived and worked in San Francisco. His writing has been compared to Emile Zola,...

David Wales 5 hours 34 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

511

Lord Dunsany - Fifty-one Tales (version 2)

A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometimes ending with an unexpected outcome, these stories are well rooted in...

Rosslyn Carlyle 2 hours 15 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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542

Edwin Arnold Brenholtz - Recording Angel

«The Recording Angel,» by Edwin Arnold Brenholtz, is one of the earliest examples of an American proletarian novel, a work intended to promote social reform or political revolution among the working classes. The...

Linette and 2 more 10 hours 41 minutes

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Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems

Published 1900 onward

476

Sherwood Anderson - Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems

“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous “Winesburg, Ohio,” the author adopts a variety of perspectives and settings...

Ben Adams 7 hours 7 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

509

George Gissing - Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing...

Peter Eastman 7 hours 44 minutes

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General Fiction

489

Alice Mangold Diehl - Entrapped

The story begins with a storm outside an old house and stormy scenes inside between the house’s occupants. It details the eventful life of Zoe Blount, including her involvement in a mystery and her place in a...

Newgatenovelist 5 hours 13 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

525

Jack London - Tales of the Fish Patrol

Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again...

Don W. Jenkins 2 hours 56 minutes

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513

D. H. Lawrence - Rainbow (Version 2)

Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen...

Tony Foster 19 hours 27 minutes

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Romance

547

Mary Roberts Rinehart - When a Man Marries

A divorced playboy hosts a dinner party complete with a stand in wife to placate his aunt who financially supports him. When his chef is hospitalized with smallpox symptoms, the fun begins. Throw in an ex-wife, a...

Sharon Kilmer 5 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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