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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2)

Literary Fiction

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James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of Irish society and the Catholic church,...

Tadhg 8 hours 26 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Alec John Dawson - Finn The Wolfhound

Dawson published over thirty books, the one best remembered today probably being the animal adventure story Finn the Wolfhound (1908)…. His own dog Tynagh and her son Gareth, who was described as the largest and...

David Wales 11 hours 50 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress (version 2)

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and originally published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of...

MaryAnn 13 hours

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Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories

Short Stories

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Anthony Trollope - Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories

A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay; Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Telegraph Girl; and Alice Dugdale — Summary by Nicholas Clifford

Nicholas Clifford 10 hours 56 minutes

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Satire

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F. Anstey - Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen

These short comic parodies of five well-known tragedies by Henrik Ibsen originally appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine. From the prefatory note: «The author is conscious that his imitation is painfully...

2 hours 14 minutes

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Memoirs

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Donald Shaw - Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as «a man of education and worldly experience» and weighing «19 stone 13 lbs» (279 lbs), a stone...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lloyd Osbourne - Wrecker

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a...

Antony Brown and 9 more 14 hours 24 minutes

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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3)

Philosophy

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Patanjali - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3)

This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic text focuses on «the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man.» — Summary...

Maggie Russell 3 hours 45 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Letters to Dead Authors

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke,...

Brian Mansi and 9 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Georgette Leblanc - Blue Bird for Children

One of the strongest pieces of imaginative writing for children that the past decade has produced and one of the most delicate and beautiful of all times, is «The Blue Bird,» by Maurice Maeterlinck, written as a play,...

Carina Pereira and 6 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study In Scarlet (version 5)

«A Study in Scarlet» is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from the viewpoint of Dr. John Watson and recounts his first experiences of meeting the...

Robert Dixon 3 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock

A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence — until he decides to talk to the neighbors of the victim, a blind doctor and his beautiful wife… —...

Crln Yldz Ksr 2 hours 14 minutes

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