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Mary Jane Holmes - Tempest and Sunshine

Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of two sisters, as different as night and day; blonde Fanny and dark haired...

jedopi and 5 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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493

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Evelina's Garden

This is a long short story from 1899, approximately 95 minutes more or less, about a mysterious woman living virtually alone on the outskirts of a small New England town in a mansion with a magnificent garden....

Bellona Times 1 hour 51 minutes

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479

John Luther Long - Madame Butterfly

Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outcast from her relatives. Anxiously she awaits the return of her beloved...

Availle 1 hour 55 minutes

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468

Thomas Hardy - Two On A Tower

The plot concerns two – literally starcrossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night...

Tadhg 9 hours 15 minutes

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527

Charles Dickens - Battle of Life

While «The Battle of Life» is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books — his annual release of a story just before Christmas — this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle,...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 28 minutes

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Grace Livingston Hill - Best Man

Cyril Gordon, a young and handsome secret service agent is running from pursuers who desperately want the information he holds. He hides out from them in a church, and then finds himself married to a woman he’s never...

Gail Mattern 6 hours 33 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

478

L. Adams Beck - Ninth vibration and other stories

This is a collection of the following short stories: The Ninth Vibration — The Interpreter: A Romance of the East — The Incomparable Lady: A Story of China with a Moral — The Hatred of the Queen: A Story of Burma —...

Linda Andrus 7 hours 55 minutes

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536

Booth Tarkington - Gentle Julia

Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 8 hours 11 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world...

jedopi and 12 more 6 hours 26 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd

Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is beautiful, clever and rich. Two men instantly fall in love with her. But...

Jacquerie and 12 more 20 hours 20 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Woodlanders (version 2)

The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns the life and loves of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, Edred Fitzpiers,...

Tadhg 13 hours 27 minutes

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane...

Elizabeth Klett 11 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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