Religious Fiction

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Religious Fiction

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Émile Zola - Lourdes

This book describes a five day national pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Lourdes, where miracle cures are hoped for. The central character is a priest, Pierre, whose faith is faltering. He is accompanying his...

Peter Tucker 19 hours 3 minutes

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Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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M. R. James - Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are ancient literatures about biblical events and characters but these books are not...

David Wales 3 hours 25 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Sarah Doudney - Nelly Channell

Another fascinating book by the author of A Vanished Hand. Rhoda returns home after the death of her employer to find out that her cousin Helen, with whom she was raised, also returned home. Her husband stole 300...

jenno and 2 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Reade - Cloister and the Hearth

'The Cloister and the Hearth', by Charles Reade, was published in 1861. It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe, telling the story of the love between Gerard Eliason, an artist turned...

Tom Denholm 36 hours 16 minutes

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Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations

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Dante Alighieri - Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations

A Four Quartets for the End of Time, these works stretch from the death and rebirth of a living land, England/Albion, to the death of the world as we know it in the Book of Revelations, going by way of a journey of...

Tony Addison 43 hours 1 minute

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Historical Fiction

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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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Children's Tabernacle; Or, Hand Work and Heart Work

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Charlotte Maria Tucker - Children's Tabernacle; Or, Hand Work and Heart Work

Bored with whittling, embroidery and other amusements, five children and their mother set out to build a model of the tabernacle. As the pillars are fashioned and the curtains sewn, the children learn the importance...

Bethesda Lily and 1 more 3 hours 14 minutes

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Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

Family Life

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Samuel Gordon - Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' commitment to improving the lives of working class people leads them to...

Adrian Praetzellis 16 hours 5 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Hugh Walpole - Cathedral

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the...

David Wales 15 hours

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Religious Fiction

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Susan Warner - Letter Of Credit

«Rotha is a poor American girl who has to see both her parents die. All that time, she is comforted by an English friend of the family, Mr. Digby-Southwode. Mr. Digby-Southwode thinks he does the right thing by...

Bethesda Lily and 5 more 19 hours 13 minutes

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Anatole France - Revolt of the Angels

Anatole France, in his satirical and allegorical fashion, weaves a tale of fantasy which finds a mischievous guardian angel stealing books from his earthly charge, who happens to be an archbishop in possession of a...

Roger Melin 9 hours 44 minutes

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Robert Hugh Benson - Dawn of All

In a former book, called «Lord of the World,» I attempted to sketch the kind of developments a hundred years hence which, I thought, might reasonably be expected if the present lines of what is called «modern thought»...

Maria Therese 9 hours 2 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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