Published 1900 onward

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

415

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

575

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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468

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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479

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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Published 1900 onward

464

Kenneth McGaffey - Mollie of the Movies

This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He writes in an epistolary style and gives us a comic, slice-of-life look at a...

Amanda Friday 1 hour

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

538

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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457

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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512

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Double: A Petersburg Poem

This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his «doppelganger» appearing in his life (at work, in society, etc). This «double» has all the qualities that the protagonist lacks....

Greg Giordano and 1 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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497

Gertrude Atherton - Senator North

«When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member of this body, he has much to learn and much to endure. Little does he know of what...

Lynne T and 2 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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546

Arnold Bennett - Buried Alive

The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man...

Simon Evers 5 hours 53 minutes

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511

Henry Handel Richardson - Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various...

Kirsty Leishman 7 hours 6 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

478

Robert E. Howard - People of the Black Circle

«The People of the Black Circle» is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September,...

Mark Nelson 3 hours 36 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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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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