Kirsty Leishman

12 books

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Published 1900 onward

431

Miles Franklin - Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Though the election campaigners preen themselves for the women's vote, the fight isn't entirely won, for the male residents are bristling at this...

Kirsty Leishman and 2 more 9 hours 16 minutes

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Family Life

408

Barbara Baynton - Human Toll

Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by station hands, Boshy, Nungi,and Queeby, at her new home, in a nearby country...

Kirsty Leishman 6 hours 55 minutes

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Short Stories

470

Barbara Baynton - Bush Studies

Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for women in colonial Australia. She wrote in response to Henry Lawson's romantic...

Kirsty Leishman 3 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

500

Henry Handel Richardson - Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various...

Kirsty Leishman 7 hours 6 minutes

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Detective Fiction

503

Mary Fortune - Stories from The Detective's Album

Mary Fortune is best known for The Detective's Album, the longest-running early detective serial anywhere in the world. Written under the name Waif Wander and narrated by detective Mark Sinclair, The Detective's Album...

Kirsty Leishman 9 hours 39 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

418

Rosa Campbell Praed - Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

Following a failed love affair in England, Lady Bridget O'Hara accepts an invitation to travel to colonial Australia as companion to Lady Rosamund Tallant, the wife of the newly-appointed governor of Leichardt's Land....

Kirsty Leishman 10 hours 21 minutes

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Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint

General Fiction

387

Maud Jean Franc - Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint

'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free settlement of Adelaide in pre-Federation Australia. The novel follows the...

Kirsty Leishman 4 hours 50 minutes

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Historical Fiction

421

Katharine S. Prichard - Pioneers

The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a...

Kirsty Leishman 8 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

474

William John Locke - Fortunate Youth

Paul is a poor boy who grew up in London, in the household of his mother and stepfather. His journey to greatness is the subject of our story. But his desired success comes at a very high price. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

DVoice and 5 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lilian Gask - Fairies and the Christmas Child

The worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman, and had a great gruff voice that came from his boots and was rather...

Bryan Daniels and 7 more 3 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

486

Stendhal - Red and the Black, Volume I

Stendhal — a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't...

Sandra Luna and 7 more 9 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

518

James Joyce - Ulysses (version 2)

Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting narrative styles. It was published in serial form between 1918-1920 and...

Brian and 16 more 31 hours 44 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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