Published before 1800

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Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton

Epistolary Fiction

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Hannah Webster Foster - Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton

The classic early American epistolary novel about the seduction and ruin of a passionate young woman. Based on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, whose lonesome death in childbirth in a Connecticut inn sparked...

Michele Eaton and 5 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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Published before 1800

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Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary: A Fiction

Eliza, Mary's mother, is obsessed with novels, rarely considers anyone but herself, and favours Mary's brother. She neglects her daughter, who educates herself using only books and the natural world. Ignored by her...

April Gonzales and 2 more 2 hours 25 minutes

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Romance

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Charlotte Lennox - Female Quixote Vol. 2

Second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his...

Jesse Noar and 7 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3

Published before 1800

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3

This is volume 3 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759,...

Ruth Golding and 7 more 5 hours 13 minutes

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Romance

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Charlotte Lennox - Female Quixote Vol. 1

The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his duty to praise the...

Gilly and 4 more 7 hours 9 minutes

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Charles Brockden Brown - Arthur Mervyn

Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the illness and is rescued by a kindly doctor. Arthur tells the doctor and his wife...

Margaret Espaillat 17 hours 29 minutes

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Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I)

Published before 1800

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Tobias Smollett - Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I)

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771), first published in 1751, and revised and reissued in 1758. It is the story of the fortunes and misfortunes...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 18 hours 4 minutes

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Romance

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Chrétien de Troyes - Erec and Enide

A medieval romance in which Erec goes through many trials until he is sure of Enide’s loyalty and true love (Summary by M. J. Boyle)

M. J. Boyle 4 hours 37 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Murasaki Shikibu - Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)

The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes...

Moira Fogarty and 7 more 8 hours 52 minutes

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Thomas More - Utopia (Burnet translation)

This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really does belong to everybody, everyone does the work they want to, and everyone...

Jenilee 3 hours 53 minutes

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Oliver Goldsmith - Vicar of Wakefield

Published in 1766 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £60 on Oliver Goldsmith's behalf by Dr Johnson to enable Goldsmith to pay off...

Martin Clifton 6 hours 23 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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