Lisa Reichert

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Dark Night's Work

Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dickens, with whom Mrs Gaskell had several disagreements. She chose to avoid...

fiddlesticks and 8 more 6 hours 35 minutes

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Satire

437

Robert Smythe Hichens - Green Carnation

The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas — also known as 'Bosie', whom the...

ElleyKat and 2 more 4 hours 52 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

456

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - Rainy Week (Version 2)

A couple invite people of different walks of life to their cottage along the beach, during the rainiest week of the year. The gathered people are unknowing actors in a carefully crafted play that is created by...

Glenn Koster Jr. and 4 more 4 hours 41 minutes

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Single Author Collections

501

Stephen Crane - Whilomville Stories

This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his best stories. They appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine between 1899 and...

adramko and 3 more 4 hours 11 minutes

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Poetry

429

Amy Lowell - Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914. «Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see...

Anusha Iyer and 8 more 3 hours 26 minutes

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Memoirs

408

Herman Charles Merivale - My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum

Fully titled My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by a Sane Patient, this memoir describes its author's, Herman Merivale's, experience in one of England's countryside asylums during the 1860's. The main subject — in...

Carol Cotter and 2 more 3 hours 5 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Bab Ballads (version 2)

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

461

Kenneth Grahame - Pagan Papers

We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered musings on the human condition...everything from loafing about and old book...

Will Cooper and 10 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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Poetry

494

Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow

This is a 1920 collection of poetry by American poet Sara Teasdale. The collection comprises 92 poems, which are grouped together into 12 sets. — Summary by Carolin

Anusha Iyer and 6 more 1 hour 3 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

469

John Clare - Insects

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 19 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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