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Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters

Short Stories

486

Thomas Hardy - Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters

Eighteen short stories by a master story teller. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 8 hours 23 minutes

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Short Stories

446

Thomas Hardy - Changed Man And Other Tales

Eleven short stories. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 9 hours 32 minutes

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Literary Fiction

421

Charles Waddell Chesnutt - House Behind the Cedars

In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history....

James K. White 7 hours 29 minutes

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Literary Fiction

494

H. G. Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through

«Mr. Britling Sees It Through» is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes...

Peter Eastman 17 hours 10 minutes

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Family Life

408

Barbara Baynton - Human Toll

Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by station hands, Boshy, Nungi,and Queeby, at her new home, in a nearby country...

Kirsty Leishman 6 hours 55 minutes

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551

L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch

Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch sees the reappearance of Louise and Arthur Weldon after the birth of their first child, Jane. The family lives in California and hire a nurse, a local Mexican woman, much to Uncle...

Lynne T 4 hours 52 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

401

Cicely Hamilton - William, An Englishman

William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during the rise of Socialism and the Suffragette movement. It was originally...

Expatriate 6 hours 10 minutes

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House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories

Short Stories

560

Anton Chekhov - House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories

Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales)

David Wales 7 hours 1 minute

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461

James Lane Allen - Doctor's Christmas Eve

A gentle reminiscence of a fictional country doctor as the year is drawing to a close. Unlike city doctors, the personal and professional life of a country doctor are closely intertwined. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Lynne T and 2 more 5 hours 31 minutes

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463

Jeannie Gunn - We of the Never-Never

We of the Never Never is the second book written by Jeannie Gunn under the name of “Mrs Aeneas Gunn”. It is considered by many as a classic of Australian writing. The book was published as a novel but draws on the...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan and 2 more 8 hours 20 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

523

E. Phillips Oppenheim - Yellow House

Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that will change everything they thought to be real in their lives. (Summary by...

Sharon Kilmer 7 hours 19 minutes

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Rupert Hughes - Souls for Sale

Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous charges of the film industry's moral laxities and predilections toward vice....

Deanna Bovee 14 hours 13 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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