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Historical Fiction

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Sir Harry Johnston - Mrs. Warren's Daughter

Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play, Vivie Warren, an emancipated young woman recently graduated from University,...

Jacquerie 13 hours 39 minutes

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American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad

Travel & Geography

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American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad

Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An anonymous correspondent in 1868-69 sent in these seven articles about life in...

David Wales 3 hours 1 minute

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Children's Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Sentimental Tommy

«J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tommy novels, as they are collectively referred to, are also about a child who does...

Sandra Cullum and 10 more 11 hours 45 minutes

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Around the World in Eighty Days (version 5 Dramatic Reading)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 5 Dramatic Reading)

In London, 1872, a rich English gentlemen named Mr. Phileas Fogg argues with the members in the Reform Club, and takes on a journey around the world in 80 days with his new servant, Passapartout, with accepting a...

6 hours 25 minutes

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Family Life

839

Sabine Baring-Gould - Pennycomequicks

The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scarred and battered by human and Divine tragedy, struggling for sustenance of...

Michael Reuss 16 hours 40 minutes

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Summa Theologica - 07 Pars Prima Secundae, Treatise on the Passions

Early Modern

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Saint Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica - 07 Pars Prima Secundae, Treatise on the Passions

The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners...

M.S.C. Lambert LC 12 hours 57 minutes Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas

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Humorous Fiction

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Louis Napoleon Parker - Pomander Walk

Pomander Walk is a unique street in London, and in this humorous novel we meet the unusual residents. It was originally produced as a stage play and includes lively dialog. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Lynne T and 2 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Modern

779

Lev Shestov - All Things Are Possible

A passionate exponent of Russian Existentialism, Lev Shestov is little known in the English-speaking world but had an extensive influence on philosophy and literature in the first half of the 20th century, his...

Expatriate 5 hours 9 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Frances Alice Forbes - Saint Benedict

Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 543 or 547) is honoured by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students. Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Italy (about 40 miles (64 km) to...

DomBombadil and 6 more 2 hours 27 minutes

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War & Military

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Walter Wood - In the Line of Battle

“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers… We see a great simplicity and directness of observation and recital, so admirable that one page of such writing is worth all...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 34 minutes

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Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain

Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain

This is a superb sweeping romantic adventure story of how Alan Quatermain, hero of fourteen of Rider H Haggard's books, met, fell in love with and married his first wife. It is related from the perspective of old age...

Peter John Keeble 9 hours 49 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Washington Irving - Selected Classics of Washington Irving

Washington Irving is one of early America's most treasured writers. He is best known for his wit and satirical voice. Irving had the extraordinary ability to paint a picture in words on the canvas of the printed page....

Greg Giordano 3 hours 16 minutes

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