Elizabeth Klett

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Sonnets

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Lady Mary Wroth - Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is the first sonnet sequence written by an Englishwoman. Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of sonnet sequences by making the speaker a woman (Pamphilia, whose name means...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 43 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

573

George Eliot - Mill on the Floss

The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform...

Lucy Burgoyne and 17 more 21 hours 15 minutes

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Memoirs

463

Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 46 minutes

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Short Stories

494

James Joyce - Dead (version 2)

This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that is attended by their nephew, Gabriel Conroy, and his...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 36 minutes

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Romance

499

Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 2)

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied with Anne's choice, feeling he was not distinguished enough for their family,...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

552

Henry James - Wings of the Dove

«The Wings of the Dove,» published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 20 hours 11 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

542

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life....

hefyd and 11 more 12 hours 59 minutes

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Romance

596

Edith Wharton - Glimpses of the Moon

«The Glimpses of the Moon» (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an «open» relationship, but are...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

531

Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York «Society», who spent much of her life in France. In this novel she tells the story of Undine Sprague, the thrice- (or more) married, upwardly...

Isosceles and 10 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Children's Fiction

555

E. Nesbit - Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

<p/>Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children...

Laura Caldwell and 9 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Poetry

538

Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophil and Stella

Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means «star-lover») for his beloved Stella (whose name...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 14 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Logan Marshall - Myths and Legends of All Nations

This excellent book contains many great stories from the various mythologies of man throughout the ages.

Mark and 12 more 8 hours 59 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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