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Romance

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor

«If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply»… thus opens Lorna Doone, one of the best love stories ever written. The novel has inspired at least ten movies and mini-series. «John (in West Country dialect this...

humeangel and 10 more 27 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

558

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island (version 2)

Anne is off to Redmond College! She will spend the next three years living and learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships. Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne...

Karen Savage 6 hours 44 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Romance

527

Hall Caine - Manxman

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, CH, KBE (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British author. He is best known as a novelist and playright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his...

Tony Ashworth 20 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

588

Adele Garrison - Revelations of a Wife

Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. She later worked as an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and then a reporter...

Maire Rhode 11 hours 47 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

512

P. G. Wodehouse - Three Men and a Maid

This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a...

Tim Bulkeley 5 hours 42 minutes

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General Fiction

577

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (version 2)

Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governess at the remote Thornfield Hall. She finds a kindred spirit in her employer,...

Elizabeth Klett 18 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

524

Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 3)

«All the privilege I claim for my own sex… is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.» In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class...

Moira Fogarty 8 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

693

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Undine

Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into...

Pete Williams Pittsburgh PA 3 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

536

Jane Austen - Emma (version 2)

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as «handsome, clever, and rich» but is...

Sibella Denton 14 hours 3 minutes

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Detective Fiction

514

George Barr McCutcheon - Graustark

The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, and its sequels. They were popular best-sellers at the time they were...

Maire Rhode and 4 more 10 hours 29 minutes

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Historical Fiction

534

H. G. Wells - Ann Veronica

Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a «New Woman». When it was published, the Spectator described it as a «poisonous book… capable of poisoning the minds of...

Joy Chan 10 hours 25 minutes

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General Fiction

553

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (version 2)

Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 9 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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