Elizabeth Klett

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George Eliot - Middlemarch

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's...

Guntar and 16 more 33 hours 1 minute

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

552

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters (version 2)

Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the...

Elizabeth Klett 25 hours 17 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...

MorganScorpion and 11 more 24 hours 21 minutes The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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General Fiction

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Charlotte Brontë - Shirley

Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in...

Shirley Anderson and 20 more 23 hours 21 minutes

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Literary Fiction

555

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady (version 2)

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels, and...

Elizabeth Klett 23 hours 6 minutes

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Family Life

553

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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Published 1800 -1900

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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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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd

Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is beautiful, clever and rich. Two men instantly fall in love with her. But...

Jacquerie and 12 more 20 hours 20 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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General Fiction

547

Mrs. Henry Wood - Channings

This is a saga about life in a small town in England during the Victorian era. The «stars» of this saga are the Channings. Mr. Channing was ill and, because of his poverty, his six children have to work. Many things...

Elizabeth Klett and 12 more 20 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Elizabeth and 15 more 18 hours 59 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Ann Radcliffe - Italian

The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would not put up with their love. This novel is considered to be one of the best...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 18 hours 48 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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