Published 1900 onward

94 books

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595

D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be...

Mark F. Smith 18 hours 48 minutes

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515

Horatio Alger, Jr. - Adrift in New York

John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and his long lost son — if alive. John thinks it would be best if Florence and...

Bridget Gaige 4 hours 52 minutes

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511

William John Locke - Red Planet

Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life...

Ruth Golding and 9 more 10 hours 13 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

521

Jerome K. Jerome - Tea-table Talk

As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display «the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs in some of his other books.» It takes the...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 33 minutes

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Romance

571

D. H. Lawrence - Trespasser

Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde — on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for one of the parties, Siegmund, when he sacrifices family life for a few...

Martin Geeson 10 hours 40 minutes

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Short Stories

452

Émile Zola - Flood

A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in...

R. S. Steinberg 51 minutes

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450

Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career

Sybella «There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life,...

Annise and 11 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Short Stories

526

Arnold Bennett - Tales of the Five Towns

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of...

Martin Clifton 5 hours 39 minutes

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470

Christopher Morley - Parnassus on Wheels

Parnassus on Wheels is about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-year-old Helen McGill, who is tired of taking care of her ailing older...

Dawn Larsen 3 hours 48 minutes

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454

Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart...

Jeannie 7 hours 33 minutes

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Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Published 1900 onward

422

Sinclair Lewis - Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer...

John W. Michaels 13 hours 34 minutes

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Literary Fiction

592

Henry James - Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the «major phase» of James' career. The Golden Bowl...

Lee Ann Howlett 22 hours 5 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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