Memoirs
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Margaret Herschel - Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scene during the late 18th and early 19th century. Sister of the well known...
10 hours 36 minutes
Short Stories
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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 08, Dec. 23, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft...
1 hour 43 minutes
General Fiction
930
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (version 2)
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle, good-hearted friend Amelia Sedley as they...
35 hours 18 minutes
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773
Elizabeth Bisland - In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty...
4 hours 9 minutes
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