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Epistolary Fiction

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Jane Austen - Lady Susan

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan , which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady...

2 hours 27 minutes

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649

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gives her whole heart to every endeavor. When the Dashwoods — mother Mrs....

Michelle Crandall and 14 more 12 hours 11 minutes

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Willa Sibert Cather - Alexander's Bridge

Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a mid-life crisis. Although married to his wife Winifred, Bartley resumes his...

Eva and 1 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Romance

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Daniel Defoe - Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this...

Denny Sayers and 9 more 13 hours 32 minutes

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Kate Chopin - Awakening

Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons,...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Harvester

The Harvester is one of Gene Stratton-Porter’s romantic novels which combine a love of nature, high moral ideals and a good plot. This is the story of a young man who lives in the country side with his dog and...

Cindy Steib 14 hours 54 minutes

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Joseph Bédier - Tristan and Iseult

This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in tragedy. This story predates that of Lancelot and Guinevere, and is one of the...

Joy Chan 2 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

611

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard Cœur-de-Lion at the...

Kristin LeMoine and 7 more 19 hours 25 minutes

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Romance

545

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate...

Tina Tilney and 19 more 16 hours 3 minutes

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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Erotica

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John Cleland - Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre “Erotica.” It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor’s prison in London. Over the...

Chip and 6 more 9 hours 27 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released...

1 hour 37 minutes

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 2)

Jane Austen’s classic novel chronicles the events in the lives of the Bennet family. Take a family with five unmarried daughters and a lack of wealth, throw in a new wealthy neighbor or two, plus a whole regiment of...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg 13 hours 25 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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