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Virginia Woolf - Voyage Out

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittiest social satires. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America...

Grant Hurlock 17 hours 38 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit

Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is...

Ellis Christoff 36 hours 10 minutes

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Samuel Butler - Erewhon

Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part...

calystra and 8 more 8 hours

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Samuel Butler - Way of All Flesh

<p/>The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It...

Rhonda Federman 17 hours 58 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, published in 1893. As in some of his other comedies, Wilde satirizes the morals of Victorian society, and attitudes between...

2 hours 5 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Ward Moore - Greener Than You Think

Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course where it had been planted? That news story was foreshadowed decades previously...

Lee Elliott 14 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

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Voltaire - Zadig or the Book of Fate

Zadig, ou La Destinée, («Zadig, or The Book of Fate») (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does...

Carl Manchester and 9 more 3 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Israel Zangwill - Big Bow Mystery

It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says,...

Adrian Praetzellis 5 hours 5 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is condemned to live the life of a slave....

Michael Yard 7 hours 6 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

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Charles Dickens - Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word gets out that he is ill, he finds himself surrounded by a throng of...

Debra Lynn 32 hours 23 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers consists of a sequence of...

Debra Lynn and 12 more 30 hours 38 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Hard Times

Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and...

Kirsten Ferreri and 9 more 10 hours 54 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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