Romance

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Kate Douglas Wiggin - Old Peabody Pew

A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Maria Therese and 1 more 1 hour 28 minutes

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Romance

427

Wilkie Collins - Poor Miss Finch

“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it awful?” Ha! Lucilla Finch is the wisest of all the characters, in spite of,...

Sandra G 20 hours 5 minutes

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522

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Run to Earth

A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, and suspense. (Introduction by Gail Mattern)

Gail Mattern 19 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

422

Edith Wharton - Touchstone

Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain....

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 40 minutes

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Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year

General Fiction

435

Florence Louisa Barclay - Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year

Ronald West has a brilliant idea for his next novel, but to do it right, he wants to spend the next six months tramping around central Africa to experience the setting first hand. His wife Helen fully supports his...

MaryAnn 4 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

453

Charles Clark Munn - Pocket Island

Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds...

Roger Melin 5 hours 20 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

420

John Jeffery Farnol - Broad Highway

Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters...

John Lieder and 6 more 15 hours 51 minutes

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Historical Fiction

516

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 7

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Levin, in town for Kitty’s confinement, finds himself drawn to the corruptive...

MaryAnn 4 hours 20 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

467

Victor Hugo - Toilers of the Sea

This is the story of a man’s monumental struggle against nature, to win the hand of the woman he loves, and surmount every difficulty that Nature puts in his path (Summary by Alisson Veldhuis)

Alisson Veldhuis and 1 more 16 hours 55 minutes

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465

Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence (version 2)

Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds...

Elizabeth Klett 9 hours 57 minutes

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Coffee Break Collection 005 - Love and Relationships

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Coffee Break Collection 005 - Love and Relationships

This is a collection of 20 short works (between 3 and 15 minutes long) that are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to...

Andrew Short and 14 more 2 hours 58 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Historical Fiction

469

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 8

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vronsky leaves for the Servian war, unable to live without Anna and hoping to...

MaryAnn 2 hours 11 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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New

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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