Published 1900 onward

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Grace Livingston Hill - Finding of Jasper Holt

Jasper Holt was a neglected child. As a consequence, he grew up to be angry and independent — generally good, but not caring what others thought of him… until he met Jean Grayson, the first truly good person he ever...

TriciaG 6 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

422

Sōseki Natsume - Botchan

Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival there is not very lucky: The pupils are bound to test his perseverance and...

Availle 5 hours 7 minutes

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446

F. M. Mayor - Third Miss Symons

Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world, as it passes in swift procession. Her tale is in a form becoming common...

Rachel Lintern 3 hours 17 minutes

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394

Susan Glaspell - Fidelity

The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married man. Now that she's returned home to take care of her dying father, she faces...

Arielle Lipshaw 9 hours 11 minutes

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444

David Garnett - Lady Into Fox

When Sylvia Tebrick, the 24-year-old wife of Richard Tebrick, suddenly turns into a fox while they are out walking in the woods, Mr. Tebrick sends away all the servants in an attempt to keep Sylvia's new nature a...

Natalie and 3 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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441

Selma Lagerlöf - Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!

“Thy Soul shall bear Witness” (Körkarlen) by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf is a kind of spooky Novel. It was first published in 1912 and in English in 1922, the same year as the international release of...

Lars Rolander 4 hours 27 minutes

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418

Rosa Campbell Praed - Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

Following a failed love affair in England, Lady Bridget O'Hara accepts an invitation to travel to colonial Australia as companion to Lady Rosamund Tallant, the wife of the newly-appointed governor of Leichardt's Land....

Kirsty Leishman 10 hours 21 minutes

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Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2)

Published 1900 onward

474

Mark Twain - Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2)

The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his...

John Greenman 3 hours 46 minutes

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427

Myrtle Reed - Old Rose And Silver

The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and...

Daryl Wor 7 hours 36 minutes

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Family Life

427

Selma Lagerlöf - Liliecrona's Home

Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in the same surroundings in the district of Värmland which Lagerlöf knew so...

Lars Rolander 7 hours 48 minutes

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610

Theodore Dreiser - Jennie Gerhardt

This is a story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from and extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs with two different men from a much higher social class. How members of her...

Richard Kilmer 14 hours 42 minutes

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Historical Fiction

454

J. M. Barrie - Echoes of the War

Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of «Peter Pan». ( Summary by JCarson )

James E. Carson 3 hours

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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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