Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

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Henry James - Roderick Hudson

Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student...

Nicholas Clifford 13 hours 21 minutes

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A. E. W. Mason - Running Water

Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times), he was a prolific and popular writer of the period. Running Water, published...

Nicholas Clifford 8 hours 37 minutes

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Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name

Historical Fiction

449

Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name

Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's...

Lazuli and 6 more 17 hours 4 minutes

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Henry Brooks Adams - Democracy - An American Novel

Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great acclaim in 1880. Though the book avoids dates and the characters are...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 16 minutes

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Henry James - Birthplace

Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to his plot. The story has to do with Mr. and Mrs. Gedge, tempted away from a...

Nicholas Clifford 2 hours 16 minutes

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468

Henry James - Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2

This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty,...

Isabelle Brasme and 9 more 16 hours 48 minutes

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515

Anthony Trollope - Rachel Ray

The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman — wishes him to marry one of her own daughters, while Rachel's mother and older...

bobolink and 6 more 13 hours 55 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

420

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Breaking Point

Mary Roberts Rinehart — «America's Agatha Christie,» as she used to be called — set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor,...

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 27 minutes

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552

Anthony Trollope - American Senator

The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 21 hours 40 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Henry James - Ambassadors

Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older, and some would say richer, culture that...

Nicholas Clifford 16 hours 46 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Last Chronicle of Barset

Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar from the earlier Barsetshire novels, including the Rev. Josiah Crawley, the...

Nicholas Clifford and 10 more 35 hours 19 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope - Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though...

Nicholas Clifford 21 hours 56 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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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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