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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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456

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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430

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

489

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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436

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

439

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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629

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

464

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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583

H. G. Wells - Secret Places of the Heart

Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage as he travels with a psychiatrist. The book is to a great extent autobiographical. H. G. had read some brillliantly composed...

A. J. Carroll and 8 more 7 hours 24 minutes

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453

Selma Lagerlöf - Emperor of Portugallia

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Emperor of...

Lars Rolander 7 hours 10 minutes

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Travel Fiction

434

Kate Douglas Wiggin - Cathedral Courtship

An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl. Finally, girl catches boy with the...

Ric F 1 hour 31 minutes

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477

John Galsworthy - Five Tales

This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic , The Apple Tree (1916), The Juryman , Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) This last...

David Wales 11 hours 41 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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