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Family Life

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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler - Concerning Isabel Carnaby

Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of her because she is an orphan. But she will surprise everybody. — Summary by...

MaryAnn and 3 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

457

Carolyn Wells - Mystery of the Sycamore

Instead of prison time, former governor, Samuel Appleby, sentences his former rival, Daniel Wheeler to imprisonment on his homestead with a very strange addendum. He then endeavors to convince Mr. Wheeler to...

Sharon Kilmer 7 hours 22 minutes

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Travel Fiction

465

Jean Webster - Wheat Princess

Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she brings the money to support it. Her adventures in Rome are different than...

Celine Major 9 hours 17 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

479

Louisa May Alcott - Jo's Boys (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Jo’s little men and women are grown up and entering new stages of life. Along with discovering their individual niches, there are lots of lessons to study, plays to perform, and parties to attend… and love is...

10 hours 55 minutes

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Romance

479

Frank R. Stockton - Kate Bonnet

«She carried a fishing rod and line, and her name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright-faced, quick-moving young person, and apparently did not expect to catch many fish, for she had no basket in which to carry away her...

jenno and 6 more 10 hours 43 minutes

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Family Life

551

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie - Mrs. Dymond

Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to carve her own path, and she is almost forced to marry colonel Dymond. This book...

KHand and 5 more 12 hours 37 minutes

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Romance

489

Thornton Hall - Love Affairs of the Courts of Europe

The best stories are written by life itself, and that is why Thornton Hall has collected real life love stories in this volume. All the Princes Charming and the Fair Maidens of these stories are historical figures,...

Cassie Christian and 10 more 9 hours 5 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

422

Matthew Lewis - Castle Spectre

Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel The Monk is one of the most enduring Gothic works from the eighteenth century, The Castle Spectre is one of Lewis' earliest forays into drama, and a strong...

3 hours 21 minutes

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Romance

462

Hollis Godfrey - Man Who Ended War

Jim Orrington, news reporter, is at the office when the Secretary of War brings in a letter--mostly likely a prank--that demands all the nations of the world to disarm in one year or have all their battleships...

Sylviamb 6 hours 22 minutes

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Romance

570

Mrs. Hungerford - April's Lady: A Novel

This is a delightful Victorian romance by Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, published in 1890. The heroine of this novel, Joyce, finds herself to be in high demand, receiving the attentions of two eligible...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 8 more 15 hours 7 minutes

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Romance

461

James Branch Cabell - Eagle's Shadow

A romantic comedy in which love is complicated by a large inheritance. — Summary by W. Blaine Dowler

Jon M.Wilson 4 hours 58 minutes

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Historical Fiction

462

Gene Stratton-Porter - Daughter of the Land (version 2)

A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life she's been denied. She dreams of a husband, children, and a farm, yet her...

Patience Charles and 3 more 11 hours

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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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