Michele Eaton

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Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Pamela, Volume 2

Pamela, tells the story of a 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. He abducts her, locks her up in one...

Michele Eaton and 13 more 23 hours

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Family Life

442

Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Marriage, volume 2

Lady Juliana is the daughter of the Earl of Courtland. She receives a marriage proposal from a wealthy Duke but much to the horror of her father she elopes to Gretna Green a Scottish soldier Henry Douglas. She is...

Edward Kirkby and 6 more 8 hours 33 minutes

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At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

Action & Adventure Fiction

524

G. A. Henty - At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire the Indian Peninsula. When the struggle began, the Mahrattas were masters of...

Lynne T and 9 more 12 hours 53 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife

This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before...

corin2of7 and 19 more 24 hours 18 minutes

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History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

Romance

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Eliza Haywood - History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courrtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develop in the 19th century such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Rather than...

Michele Eaton 5 hours 41 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Letters to Dead Authors

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke,...

Brian Mansi and 9 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women

Biography & Autobiography

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

Mary J and 5 more 6 hours 32 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Family

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Blanche McManus - Our Little English Cousin

This delightful little book is another in the «Our Little Cousin» series that offered American children insight into what their young counterparts in other lands were like; the games they played and the life they...

Frances Brown and 4 more 1 hour 45 minutes Our Little Cousin Series

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Biography & Autobiography

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Charles F. Horne - Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The set is edited by...

Greg Giordano and 15 more 11 hours 46 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Macdermots of Ballycloran

This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a dilapidated mansion in Co. Leitrim, whose mortgage to Joe Flannelly he cannot...

Bob Neufeld and 8 more 16 hours 41 minutes

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Sports Fiction

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Morgan Scott - Rival Pitchers of Oakdale

Play Ball!!! It's the start of another baseball season at Oakdale Academy. But there is a rivalry brewing between the pitchers. One wants to be a starting pitcher, but he is inconsistent. Another, a new kid from...

Michele Eaton and 7 more 5 hours 21 minutes

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History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 2

Romance

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Eliza Haywood - History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 2

This has been said to be the first female development novel in English. Betsy leaves her emotionally and financially abusive husband Munden and experiences independence before she decides to marry again. The novel has...

Michele Eaton 5 hours 17 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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