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Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 12 minutes

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Willa Sibert Cather - Alexander's Bridge (version 3)

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by Willa Cather, published under the name Willa Sibert Cather. Heavily influenced by the works of Henry James, the book tells the story of bridge builder Bartley Alexander....

Miranda Stinson and 1 more 2 hours 29 minutes

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930

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Kilmeny of the Orchard

Eric Marshall is all that a well brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall & Company empire — and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother...

Sarah Jennings and 6 more 3 hours 47 minutes

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Fanny Burney - Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives...

Nikki Sullivan and 24 more 35 hours 50 minutes

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Rabindranath Tagore - Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the...

Accent and 4 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn the Irish Member

Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irishman who becomes a member of the English parliament. Trollope aspired to...

Laura Koskinen and 12 more 27 hours 2 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 2)

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied with Anne's choice, feeling he was not distinguished enough for their family,...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 52 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Glimpses of the Moon

«The Glimpses of the Moon» (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an «open» relationship, but are...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 47 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Jo's Boys

Jo's Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo's «children», now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. All three books — although fiction — are highly...

Megan Kunkel and 7 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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W. E. B. Du Bois - Quest of the Silver Fleece

The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an unschooled “swamp girl” each begin a journey toward love, ambition...

Richard Kilmer and 1 more 12 hours 15 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 1

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must...

Kirsten Ferreri 4 hours 25 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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P. G. Wodehouse - Damsel in Distress

A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on October 17 1919. It had previously been...

Yazpistachio and 1 more 7 hours 31 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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