Elizabeth Klett

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General Fiction

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Gertrude Stein - Geography and Plays

Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's «word portraits,» or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or «portraits», were designed to evoke...

Arielle Lipshaw and 16 more 12 hours 35 minutes

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General Fiction

801

Edith Wharton - House of Mirth

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature,...

Elizabeth Klett 12 hours 32 minutes

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General Fiction

924

E. M. Forster - Howards End

The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a...

Elizabeth Klett 12 hours 12 minutes

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Romance

905

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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1

The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by Eugène Sue which was published serially in Journal des débats from June 19, 1842 until October 15, 1843. Les Mystères de Paris singlehandedly...

Cori Samuel and 11 more 11 hours 15 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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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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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 3)

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The sensible Elinor and the sensitive Marianne both fall for men whose...

Elizabeth Klett 10 hours 52 minutes

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Political Science

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Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House

Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 10 hours 30 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Nibelungenlied

The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife...

April Gonzales and 11 more 10 hours 28 minutes

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Story of Avis

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a talented painter, and bucks against the constraints placed on women in the 19th...

Elizabeth Klett 10 hours 25 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Margaret Fuller - Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the...

Bruce Pirie and 8 more 10 hours 14 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence (version 2)

Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds...

Elizabeth Klett 9 hours 57 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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