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Eleanor M. Ingram - Game and the Candle

Faced with inherited debts, an estate to maintain, and no money to pay for either, brothers John and Robert Allard have a difficult decision to make. How much of their integrity are they willing to compromise in order...

Arlene Joyce and 3 more 5 hours 35 minutes

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Dante Alighieri - New Life (La vita nuova)

One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the...

Mary J 2 hours 1 minute

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833

Gertrude Atherton - Sleeping Fires

The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a young woman from the love she had found. A story rich in fashion ad feminism...

Sharon Kilmer 6 hours 5 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Phantom Fortune, A Novel

Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime...

chocmuse and 8 more 20 hours 9 minutes

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729

Samuel Hopkins Adams - Wanted: A Husband

This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues you with the troubles and feminine woes of young Miss Darcy Cole. Being a...

Deborah Knight 5 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

906

Théophile Gautier - Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the subterranean tombs, of the precautions taken by the designers to baffle curiosity, of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 6 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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George MacDonald - Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2)

An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just with evil, strife, and terror but also with loss, failure, sacrifice, and...

Thomas A. Copeland 7 hours 37 minutes

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Literary Fiction

843

George Bernard Shaw - Love Among the Artists

Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society a youthful...

Expatriate 11 hours 23 minutes

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Literary Fiction

830

May Sinclair - Life and Death of Harriett Frean

Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity...

Expatriate 2 hours 9 minutes

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Henry Fielding - Amelia (Vol. 2)

The second volume of Amelia. — Summary by Libby Gohn

Gabriela Cowan and 11 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

854

James Oliver Curwood - Nomads of the North

An unlikely pair were Neewa, the black bear cub who had been orphaned at a young age, and Miki, part Mackenzie hound, part Airedale and Spitz who had become separated from his master in the frozen reaches of northern...

Roger Melin 7 hours 48 minutes

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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady (version 2)

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels, and...

Elizabeth Klett 23 hours 6 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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