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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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Historical Fiction

488

A. E. W. Mason - Clementina

This well-written novel is a fictional account of a true historical rescue mission. In 1719, at the age of 17, when she was on her way across Europe to marry James Stuart, the Catholic pretender to the British throne,...

Jacquerie 9 hours 15 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

455

Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career

Sybella «There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life,...

Annise and 11 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

529

Thomas Bulfinch - Legends of Charlemagne

Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 — May 27, 1867) explains the his work is «an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according...

Jacquerie and 7 more 9 hours 10 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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Short Stories

655

Short Story Collection Vol. 059

LibriVox readers bring you 20 short stories including lesser known works by Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe, an early story by Dorothy Parker, and stories in various genres by authors...

Willy and 15 more 8 hours 48 minutes Short Story Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

482

E. Phillips Oppenheim - Stolen Idols

Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the supernatural. Carved by Chinese craftsmen, they have stood to either side of...

Jacquerie 8 hours 41 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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

414

Maurice Leblanc - Woman of Mystery

In 1898, a young boy watches in horror as his father is stabbed to death by a mysterious woman wearing a black lace scarf and an ornate brooch, Years later, when he arrives with his new bride at the chateau that was...

Jacquerie 8 hours 2 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

532

Anna Katharine Green - Mill Mystery

In the quiet New England village of S--, a young and beloved minister is found dead, ignominiously drowned in a dye vat in a dilapidated mill. Almost immediately, rumors of suicide begin to circulate. But was it...

Jacquerie 7 hours 43 minutes

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Romance

514

Henry Fielding - Amelia (Vol. 2)

The second volume of Amelia. — Summary by Libby Gohn

Gabriela Cowan and 11 more 7 hours 31 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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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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