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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Happy Boy

«A Happy Boy» was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjørnson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness , while his profound...

MaryAnn 3 hours 16 minutes

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Romance

649

Gertrude Atherton - Daughter Of The Vine

We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, including the lovely Nina Randolph. Is this the start of something special?...

Lynne T 5 hours 26 minutes

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Historical Fiction

457

Anthony Trollope - Landleaguers

Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the...

Angel5 11 hours 53 minutes

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Literary Fiction

501

William Dean Howells - Coast of Bohemia

William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable society and the dubious bohemian world of Art and Poetry. Cornelia Saunders has...

Expatriate 6 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

479

Caroline Lockhart - Dude Wrangler

Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and impress her in this genial romantic comedy. — Summary by BellonaTimes

Bellona Times 8 hours 52 minutes

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Northanger Abbey (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

513

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as...

7 hours 28 minutes

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History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

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476

Eliza Haywood - History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courrtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develop in the 19th century such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Rather than...

Michele Eaton 5 hours 41 minutes

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Kilmeny of the Orchard (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

465

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Kilmeny of the Orchard (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

A short and sweet romance by the author of «Anne of Green Gables», Kilmeny of the Orchard is a story about a schoolteacher (Eric) who goes to Prince Edward Island and meets a beautiful but mysterious girl. Who is she?...

4 hours 5 minutes

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Literary Fiction

402

May Sinclair - Tysons

Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, «The Tysons» is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair...

Expatriate 4 hours 56 minutes

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - That Lass o' Lowrie's

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. For her first novels, written in Knoxville, Tennessee and published in New...

Phil Benson 7 hours 19 minutes

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Historical Fiction

407

Florence Roma Muir Wilson - Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow

A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the War, seeking a spiritual renewal. Deep in the forest he stumbles fatefully...

Expatriate 6 hours 18 minutes

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Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers

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Lewis Theobald - Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers

This play is based on story told in Cervantes' Don Quixote, and some believe it is a reconstruction of a lost play by Shakespeare and Fletcher. Duke Angelo and his son Roderick are concerned about the activities of...

1 hour 52 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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