Elizabeth Klett

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General Fiction

444

Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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General Fiction

686

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane...

Elizabeth Klett 11 hours 9 minutes

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Poetry

502

William Shakespeare - Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius,...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

496

Louisa May Alcott - Aunt Jo's Scrapbag

A collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott that were written with the intent to entertain the whole family and to fill children's heads with wonder and delight. (Summary by Jennifer Stearns)

Diana Majlinger and 10 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

553

Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin of Tarascon

The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 13 more 3 hours 30 minutes

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Poetry

514

Charlotte Mew - Farmer's Bride

The Farmer's Bride is a collection of 28 poems by British modernist writer Charlotte Mew. The original edition was published in 1916; this edition, published in 1921, contains 11 more poems. Mew's poetry is varied...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 6 minutes

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*Non-fiction

521

W. Somerset Maugham - On a Chinese Screen

This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 7 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

496

Kate Chopin - Awakening (version 2)

Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 37 minutes

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Romance

563

Gene Stratton-Porter - Daughter of the Land

Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while her brothers and sisters are free to pursue their desires. When she defies...

Arielle Lipshaw and 10 more 11 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

561

E. Nesbit - House of Arden

This novel describes how Edred and Elfrida Arden and their Aunt Edith embark on a treasure hunt through time — for the famous Arden family treasure. With help from the magical creature Mouldiwarp, they find a whole...

Elizabeth Klett and 3 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

688

Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history...

Leni and 20 more 14 hours 50 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

General Fiction

551

Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759,...

Martin Geeson and 3 more 5 hours 15 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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