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Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

Culture & Heritage Fiction

598

Annie Denton Cridge - Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

«Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams» is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first...

Elsie Selwyn and 6 more 2 hours 57 minutes

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Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

578

Lucian of Samosata - Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a...

Foon 2 hours 39 minutes Dialogues of Lucian of Samosata

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Plays

569

Arthur Wing Pinero - "Mind The Paint" Girl

Another Pinero play from the early 1900s. With a social message about the effects of stardom on the star as well as those that love them. «I’m afraid there’s one thing finer than winning the woman you love and, when...

4 hours 20 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

731

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Sons of Fire

«He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew nothing of its inhabitants or its surroundings, its customs, ways, local...

Jim Locke 13 hours 44 minutes

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Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

Comedy

759

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

” “Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a...

2 hours 57 minutes

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General Fiction

690

Eden Phillpotts - Deal With The Devil

A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantankerous yet loveable sort, has made a deal with the devil, which his...

Angelique G. Campbell 3 hours 57 minutes

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Plays

509

Arthur Adams - Mrs. Pretty and The Premier

The Premier has decided that being married would be good for his image. He asks his stenographer for advice: (Premier) Good. Just jot me down a precis of the points made by your fifteen admirers when proposing — the...

2 hours 40 minutes

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Satire

495

Gail Hamilton - Battle of the Books

«When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publishers, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that he should declare...

Amelia Chesley and 5 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Literary Fiction

603

Godfrey Sweven - Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles

John Macmillan Brown was born in New Zealand and a University professor, wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. An excerpt from the Introduction: «Absorbed in contemplation of its sublimity, I sat for a moment on a...

KirksVoice 13 hours 42 minutes

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Satire

562

George Bernard Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession

.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two performances because of the profession talked about. The play is about a...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 50 minutes

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Comedy

593

William Wycherley - Country Wife

One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherley’s The Country Wife is a lively and riotous exploration of courtly and city life in the seventeenth century, which was rife with...

3 hours 34 minutes

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New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House

Historical Fiction

478

William Hurrell Mallock - New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House

A group of upper class men and women gather together in an English country house to discuss their ideas for a utopia (their «New Republic»). The novel is a satire mocking most of the important figures at Oxford...

Foon 9 hours 13 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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