Arnold
27 books
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Dark Night's Work
Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dickens, with whom Mrs Gaskell had several disagreements. She chose to avoid...
6 hours 35 minutes
Memoirs
692
Albert Millican - Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes
This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' visits on the way there and back. It is an interesting period; a canal is...
4 hours 47 minutes
Humorous Fiction
893
Ellis Parker Butler - Adventures of a Suburbanite
Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, this is suburbia… much the same today as it was in 1911. — Summary by Sarah...
3 hours 18 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
902
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Anthony Trollope - Two Heroines of Plumplington
In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the wishes of her father. Both young men are regarded as not 'good enough',...
2 hours 54 minutes
Humorous Fiction
900
Ellis Parker Butler - Perkins of Portland
Amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions directed at a gullible and willing public. Unlike most tales of the kind, with...
2 hours 53 minutes
