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Myrtle Reed - Spinner in the Sun

Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint...

sylly and 3 more 8 hours 2 minutes

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Jack London - Jacket

A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture...

Barry Eads 10 hours 8 minutes

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533

H. G. Wells - History of Mr. Polly

A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes everything. H.G. Wells’ early life as the son of a semi-insolvent...

Adrian Praetzellis 9 hours 8 minutes

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Theodore Dreiser - Financier

In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and...

Richard Kilmer 21 hours 49 minutes

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Katherine Cecil Thurston - Gambler

Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who lives in an area of Ireland called Orristown. Dennis is passionate, proud and indebted to no one. But, Dennis has an obsession...

Tom Weiss 13 hours 20 minutes

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535

Henry James - Ambassadors

Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older, and some would say richer, culture that...

Nicholas Clifford 16 hours 46 minutes

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496

F. Tennyson Jesse - Milky Way

The Milky Way — F. Tennyson Jesse's first novel — began life as a 1913 magazine serial called The Adventures of Viv. In it, poor-but-plucky Cornish painter/model Vivian Lovel recounts events of her twenty-first year:...

Grant Hurlock 11 hours 26 minutes

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518

Gene Stratton-Porter - Laddie

Based on the author's own life, this book tells the story of «little sister». The youngest of eleven, she is unwanted in the beginning. The brother who loved her most, and whom she loved most in the world, is Laddie....

Bridget Gaige 13 hours 52 minutes

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Ben Ames Williams - All the Brothers Were Valiant

Joel Shore, newly appointed captain of the whaling ship Nathan Ross following his brother's apparent demise as captain of the same ship, elects to make his first cruise as captain to the very location where his...

Roger Melin 3 hours 50 minutes

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518

Joseph Conrad - Amy Foster

Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk....

Bellona Times 1 hour 21 minutes

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Payne Erskine - Eye of Dread

The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent away its young men, among them Peter Junior and Richard Kildene. When they leave, Betty Ballard is but a child, but by the time the war has...

Chelsea Baker and 10 more 14 hours 58 minutes

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Street of Seven Stars

Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has talent and she dreams of a career in music. After her friends run out of money...

MaryAnn 7 hours 36 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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