Elizabeth Klett

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General Fiction

473

Mary Cowden Clarke - Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice to Lady Macbeth. In her revision of...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 50 minutes

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General

509

Louisa May Alcott - Under the Lilacs

When two young girls decide to have a tea party with their dolls and a mysterious dog comes and eats their prized cake, they end up finding a circus run-away, Ben Brown. Ben is a horse master, and loves horses, so...

MaryAnn and 7 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda

Poetry

485

Katherine Philips - Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda

The poet Katherine Philips was called «The Matchless Orinda» in her day and was well known for her works, both personal and political. She was a staunch Royalist (a supporter of Charles I and his son during the...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Sylvia's Lovers

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with...

Sonja and 10 more 17 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

461

Robert Louis Stevenson - Olalla

«Olalla» was a «shilling shocker» written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The nameless protagonist of this Gothic tale, a wounded soldier, goes to...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 39 minutes

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General Fiction

551

Aphra Behn - Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave

Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Perhaps based partly on Behn's own...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

564

Jane Austen - Emma (version 3)

Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as «a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.» Yet generations of readers have loved Emma, as much for her blunders as for...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 53 minutes

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Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

Children's Fiction

521

Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

These are 25 fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen — A collection of something for everyone — the very popular stories, the less well-known stories and favorites, that both children and grownups can enjoy....

Lucy Perry and 15 more 4 hours 39 minutes

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*Non-fiction

501

James Huneker - Chopin: the Man and His Music

A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker. (Summary by Julie VW)

Julie VW and 9 more 9 hours 30 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

452

Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career

Sybella «There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life,...

Annise and 11 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Family Life

554

George Meredith - Egoist

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he...

Martin Geeson and 9 more 22 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

397

Rebecca West - Return of the Soldier

In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 47 minutes

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New

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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