Michelle Tan

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Literary Fiction

E. M. Forster - Howards End (version 3)

Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era. The story focuses on three families in England at the beginning of the 20th...

Lynne T and 8 more 12 hours 12 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant in an old house. What he doesn't realize is that the fruit of the plant, when eaten,...

Linda Olsen Fitak and 12 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - New Magdalen

Mercy Merrick is living a difficult life on the streets, but when she meets the young and charismatic clergyman Julian Gray, she desires to leave this life behind and start afresh. She packs her things and volunteers...

ToddHW and 11 more 10 hours 56 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - My Lady's Money

Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about to complete the letter with which she is to send the note off, an emergency...

ToddHW and 9 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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William Makepeace Thackeray - History of Pendennis

In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a young gentleman trying to make his way in the world. Pen's difficulties in finding his place in the difficult maze of...

Kristin Lewis and 8 more 34 hours 50 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Theory of Colours

Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and the phenomena as experienced by the human eye. He did not try to explain...

Lynne T and 17 more 8 hours 58 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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Rolf Boldrewood - Ghost Camp

Englishman Valentine Blount is traveling in Australia, looking for his fortune. He meets up with John Carter, a bushman known locally as Little River Jack, who acts as his guide. They come across an abandoned camp —...

DonaldH and 6 more 10 hours 49 minutes

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Family Life

796

J. M. Barrie - Tommy and Grizel

This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a...

beyondutopia and 5 more 12 hours 59 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke

This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and how to find adventure. But over the course of his career, adventure finds...

Jim Lardner and 8 more 19 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

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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Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)

Katia Bodiou and 15 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Short Stories

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E. W. Hornung - Thief in the Night - Version 2

A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In...

Kristin Hughes and 4 more 6 hours 11 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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