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Historical Fiction

497

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 2

In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to pursue each other and become the talk of polite society, to the chagrin of...

willem and 10 more 5 hours 39 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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General Fiction

479

Edna Ferber - Buttered Side Down

«And so,» the story writers used to say, «they lived happily ever after.» Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent...

Xe Sands 4 hours 35 minutes

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Romance

493

Susan Coolidge - Clover

Clover is the fourth book in the popular What Katy Did series. After Katy's wedding, the focus shifts to her little sister Clover. Their brother Phil encounters serious illness in the winter, and Dr. Carr sends him...

Elli 4 hours 29 minutes Katy Did Series

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

440

Frances Sheridan - Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph — an undoubtedly good and dutiful woman — writes to her friend about everything: her marriage, her...

Rachel Lintern 21 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

421

Kate Langley Bosher - People Like That

A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends alike. Her reason — she wants to live the life of and know people like that....

Neeru Iyer 6 hours 39 minutes

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Romance

456

Anthony Trollope - Kept in the Dark

Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, and also in book form in the same year. Cecilia Holt ends her engagement to...

Neeru Iyer and 4 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Literary Fiction

479

Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 3

This is book 3 of 5. — An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Alina and 14 more 10 hours 59 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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General Fiction

514

Alexandre Dumas, fils - Camille

The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Theatre...

Bellona Times and 10 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

815

Jack London - Sea Wolf

The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote «The great...

Tom Crawford 11 hours 29 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

436

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park (dramatic reading)

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her aunt and uncle Bertram's family on their estate at the age of ten. Surrounded...

15 hours 14 minutes

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Romance

492

Ivan Turgenev - First Love

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The «boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her» story is universal but not, I think, banal — despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

399

Rebecca West - Return of the Soldier

In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 47 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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