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Religious Fiction

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Zona Gale - Christmas, A Story

This is a gentle Christmas story, whose message is that if we didn't already have Christmas, we'd find a way to invent it. It's hard times in Old Trail Town as the Season of Giving approaches. The factory that employs...

Jacquerie 3 hours 59 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

579

H. G. Wells - Secret Places of the Heart

Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage as he travels with a psychiatrist. The book is to a great extent autobiographical. H. G. had read some brillliantly composed...

A. J. Carroll and 8 more 7 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

496

Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona (version 2)

Set in Old California in the wake of the Mexican-American War, Ramona is two stories at once. It is the story of the love between a part-Native American orphan girl, Ramona, and Alessandro, a young Indian sheepherder....

Jacquerie 16 hours 41 minutes

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General Fiction

557

Anthony Trollope - American Senator

The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 21 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

493

William Clark Russell - Abandoned

We meet Miss Lucretia Lane as she is dressing for her marriage to Captain Francis Reynolds of the British Merchant Service. Though he loves her truly, she has severe misgivings. She goes through with the wedding in...

Patti Cunningham and 9 more 9 hours 31 minutes

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General Fiction

553

E. W. Hornung - Shadow of the Rope

Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and public opinion vehemently and almost universally against her. When the jury...

Jacquerie 8 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

548

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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Action & Adventure Fiction

459

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Great Shadow

Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore...

Jacquerie 3 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

480

Henry James - Death of the Lion

This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory,...

Jacquerie 1 hour 41 minutes

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General Fiction

629

Anthony Trollope - Duke's Children

In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, finding himself in charge of his three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, has...

Nicholas Clifford and 11 more 22 hours 42 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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General Fiction

496

Edith Wharton - Sanctuary

Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to...

Jacquerie 3 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

497

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with — and sometimes against — each other on Blithedale, a communal farm antecedent to those that sprang up later in the 1960s, and similar to...

Jacquerie 8 hours 48 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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