James E. Carson

26 books

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Magic Skin

Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote «criticisms» of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition...

James E. Carson 11 hours 28 minutes

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General Fiction

504

Honoré de Balzac - Firm of Nucingen

Part of the Comedie Humane and a «supplementary» tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck. Nucingen is the married family name of one of Father Goriot's daughters. «James Waring» is a pseudonym of Ellen Marriage...

James E. Carson 3 hours 17 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

518

Honoré de Balzac - Gobseck

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in...

James E. Carson 2 hours 36 minutes

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Historical Fiction

490

Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot

One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to have been an inspiration to Charles Dickens and Henry James as well as...

James E. Carson 11 hours 44 minutes

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Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester

Memoirs

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William Atherton - Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester

This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is personal and at the same time very formal and reserved. As a foot soldier...

James E. Carson 3 hours 36 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

426

Jane Barlow - Strangers at Lisconnel

Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of...

James E. Carson 8 hours 54 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Jane Barlow - Irish Idylls

Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbelievably, an uncertain date of birth, has a turn of phrase that delights and...

James E. Carson 8 hours 34 minutes

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Douay-Rheims Version

424

Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) - Bible (DRV) New Testament

The Douay Rheims New Testament, published in 1582, is a translation of St Jerome's Latin Vulgate which dates from the fourth century. It influenced production of the King James version of the Bible to come some years...

James E. Carson 25 hours 22 minutes Bible (Douay-Rheims Version)

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Essays

397

Oxford Book of American Essays

Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to...

James E. Carson 20 hours 28 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Cynthia Moyer and 22 more 21 hours 59 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Historical Fiction

449

William Carleton - Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCarson)

James E. Carson 16 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

476

Elizabeth von Arnim - Pastor's Wife

Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England, married in Germany, and then flew to the United States. A tale about a young woman, freed up from the bonds of her family life, to wonder all around in...

James E. Carson 16 hours 19 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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