Literary Fiction
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William Dean Howells - Hazard of New Fortunes
Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his family to New...
16 hours 35 minutes
War & Military
1.1K
Robert Marshall Allen - War Letters From A Young Queenslander
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories of «de-lousing» an entire regiment, the precise arrangements of the urine...
3 hours 42 minutes
Family Life
1.1K
Grace Livingston Hill - Aunt Crete's Emancipation
Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as their unpaid and unappreciated domestic servant. When they leave town in...
2 hours 41 minutes
Modern (19th C)
790
Louis Melius - American Postal Service, Second Edition
The history of the postal service in the United States goes back to the colonial period, but was established more formally with the issuing of postage stamps and regular delivery. Through small vignettes, this history...
5 hours 14 minutes
Modern (19th C)
797
John Ashton - Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign
«I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself, have lived through the whole of Queen Victoria's reign, to whom the...
10 hours 59 minutes
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