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Anthony Trollope - Marion Fay

Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to the typical strains between parental desires and romantic wishes of the...

Arnold 24 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Bertrams

This is a massive effort, taking place in England and the Middle East, with a cast of thousands… Well, not thousands, fortunately, but certainly a great many. There are three Bertrams present: Sir Lionel, his son...

Arnold 24 hours 2 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

457

Anthony Trollope - Ralph the Heir

As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the inheritance of property, extravagance or reason in the spending of assets, the...

Arnold 23 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

462

Anthony Trollope - Mr Scarborough's Family

MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance to avaricious money-lenders who hold post-obits to the entire value of the...

Michele Eaton and 13 more 22 hours 13 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Snarleyyow

This is a quite amusing nautical tale of the British Navy of the around the year 1700. While, as with much early 'humor', it is somewhat heavy-handed, the sympathies of the author are clear and good, and cruelty is...

Arnold 16 hours 52 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

463

Wilkie Collins - Queen of Hearts

The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward, the young Jessie Yelverton. Originally, her visit to them was to last only...

Peter John Keeble and 10 more 15 hours 47 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

Animals & Nature

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

The eighth book in the Junior Classics Series is an anthology of collected animal and nature tales designed to appeal to the young and young at heart. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T and 24 more 14 hours 49 minutes The Junior Classics

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Pitcher Woodward - On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours — starting without a dollar and earning my way." The journey could be...

Arnold and 9 more 13 hours 47 minutes

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How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Wilbur Peck - How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. He had a wry sense of humor and...

Arnold 9 hours 12 minutes

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Short Stories

462

Anthony Trollope - Editor's Tales

These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tales are relatively grim, compared to most...

Arnold 8 hours 56 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

518

Anthony Trollope - Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson

Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business doomed from the get-go to utter failure. Its senior partner (the elderly...

Arnold 8 hours 7 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Old Man's Love

This was Trollope's last completed novel, and he may have acquired his sympathy for older lovers with age! A not-so-very-old man, Mr. Whittlestaff, dearly loves Mary Lawrie, the girl he provides a home for after her...

Arnold 7 hours 50 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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