Published 1900 onward

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Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles

Family Life

526

Margery Watson - Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles

A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There they meet some friendly locals, and… the...

TriciaG 4 hours 3 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

514

Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles (Version 2)

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one...

Murray Rupp and 7 more 8 hours 3 minutes

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Romance

577

Grace Livingston Hill - Big Blue Soldier

Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady who is expecting her nephew for dinner. Mary Amber, Miss Marilla's neighbor, is...

LikeManyWaters 2 hours 28 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

539

Guy de Maupassant - Pierre & Jean

This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the younger brother. Pierre, the protagonist, is puzzled, jealous, and...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 54 minutes

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525

Grace Livingston Hill - Story of a Whim

A group of girls send gifts and letters to one whom they think to be a young woman like them. «Christie» is really a poor young bachelor tending his orange grove in sunny Florida. Through his correspondence with Hazel...

LikeManyWaters 3 hours 7 minutes

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Science Fiction

529

Milo Hastings - City of Endless Night

An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, «City of Endless Night» imagines a future with a very different ending to the Great War. Set in 2151 and in an underground Berlin, our...

Kate Follis 9 hours 40 minutes

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Literary Fiction

510

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Just As I Am

The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate of the county that he murdered the popular Mr. Blake. He even told the...

annie70 and 1 more 18 hours 54 minutes

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Erotica

510

Jay Little - Maybe--Tomorrow

Maybe--tomorrow, by Jay Little (pseudonym for Clarence Lewis Miller) published in 1952* based in the confusing latter part of his teenage years, tells the story of the introverted and forlorn Gaylord LeClarie coming...

Curt Troutwine 11 hours 56 minutes

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Romance

577

Maria Thompson Daviess - Daredevil

Roberta, daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise, is returning to the childhood home of her father after his death in the Great War. Upon reaching New York she realizes that her Uncle, a woman-hater, has...

LikeManyWaters 6 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

580

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly...

Joshua Herring 6 hours 30 minutes Tarzan Series

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Published 1900 onward

560

Johan Bojer - Power of a Lie

Norby is requested to guarantee a bank loan for Wangen and he obliges, signing the loan document in the presence of a witness. Some time later the witness dies. Years after that Wangen defaults on the loan, requiring...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 41 minutes

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454

Willa Sibert Cather - Lost Lady

The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs Forrester’s affair with another man, Herbert loses faith in her and all he...

Rob Marland 3 hours 51 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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