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Maurice Maeterlinck - Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts

The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil, are visited by Fairy Berilyuna. Fairy's granddaughter is sick and can only be saved by...

MaryAnn 3 hours 37 minutes

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Satire

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Molière - Learned Women

Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette's family. Her sensible father and uncle are in favour of the marriage; but...

1 hour 45 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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George Moore - Untilled Field

George Moore, an Irish writer involved with the Celtic Revival was influenced by the French Realists and particularly by the work of Émile Zola. Often considered as the first modern Irish novelist he became involved...

NoelBadrian 10 hours 40 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country (version 2)

Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 15 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Ernest Bramah - Wallet of Kai Lung

The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy...

Alan Winterrowd and 4 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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Earth Sciences

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Thomas Henry Huxley - Discourses: Biological and Geological

Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist (comparative anatomist). He was the most effective supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evolution and had a strong interest in scientific education — in schools, universities,...

Barbara Baker 12 hours 43 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He...

Simon Evers 5 hours 58 minutes

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Comedy

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William Davenant - Tempest

John Dryden and William D'Avenant's Restoration adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest preserves the main plot and characters of the original. Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, lives on an isolated island with his...

2 hours 48 minutes

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Memoirs

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Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris - Old Rail Fence Corners

Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now state of Minnesota (United States of America). This book has direct...

Jill Engle and 15 more 11 hours 48 minutes

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House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories

Short Stories

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Anton Chekhov - House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories

Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales)

David Wales 7 hours 1 minute

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Action & Adventure

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Mary Katherine Maule - Prairie-Schooner Princess

The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl who will forever change their lives. Blizzard, the Civil War, and Indians and...

Sharon Kilmer 10 hours 12 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Herbert George Jenkins - Mrs. Bindle

Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that «Bindle is the...

Don W. Jenkins 6 hours 57 minutes

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