Published 1900 onward

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General Fiction

479

Marie Corelli - Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance

Marie Corelli's book The Life Everlasting examines the world of past lives, mysticism, secret societies and twin souls against a backdrop of a true love based on the highest ideals. The plot follows our heroine from a...

Lisa Statler 14 hours 9 minutes

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448

George Gissing - House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced by George Eliot, whose work he greatly admired. Another of his famous works,...

Kirsten Wever 9 hours 40 minutes

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Science Fiction

474

Francis Donovan - Short Life

At two years old, Timmy was an imbecile, incapable of talking or controlling his own body. At four years old, he abruptly stood up and began speaking in full sentences. Within a few years, he was a genius. But it was...

Peter Eastman 2 hours 35 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

521

Maurice Baring - Lost Diaries

Within these pages find passages from the «lost diaries» of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical, and fictional. — Summary by A. Gramour

Nemo and 5 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

416

Fred M. White - Mystery of the Ravenspurs

The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged with strange happenings which are dwindling the population of the family to only...

Roger Melin 11 hours 59 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

491

Ernest Bramah - Mirror Of Kong Ho

This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is...

David Wales 5 hours 57 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

515

Arthur Machen - Terror: A Mystery

In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a culprit, an explanation, and an end to the terror. — Summary by A. Gramour

OCTL7 and 5 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

433

Louis Hémon - Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)

The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a famous example of the genre known as «novels of the land» («romans du...

Bruce Pirie 5 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

434

Anna Hamlin Weikel - Betty Baird's Ventures

Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is having trouble paying the mortgage, she decides to spread her entrepreneurial...

Holly Jenson 6 hours 37 minutes

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Historical Fiction

547

James Lane Allen - Cathedral Singer

New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Divine. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 7 minutes

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422

Leonard Merrick - Position of Peggy Harper

Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit part, and by his uncle's charity, while hoping for a leading-man role. He...

Anna Simon 6 hours 22 minutes

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556

Anna Hamlin Weikel - Betty Baird

This is the first book in the Betty Baird Series of boarding school books, a genre which was popular among young girls in the early 1900s. Our heroine, Betty Baird, who is herself obsessed with reading boarding school...

Holly Jenson 5 hours 4 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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