Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

484

Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry

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...

Margaret Espaillat and 8 more 11 hours 22 minutes

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Literary Fiction

469

E. W. Hornung - Peccavi

How does a man who as committed a heavy sin — not a crime, but a sin with terrible consequences — atone for his behaviour? What if the man is a priest of the Church of England? That is the central question of E. W....

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 11 minutes

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Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories

Short Stories

478

Anthony Trollope - Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories

A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay; Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Telegraph Girl; and Alice Dugdale — Summary by Nicholas Clifford

Nicholas Clifford 10 hours 56 minutes

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Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Sports & Recreation

392

Edward Whymper - Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1840-1911) one of the leading figures of the early years of Alpine climbing....

Nicholas Clifford 10 hours 4 minutes

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Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love (version 2)

Crime & Mystery Fiction

430

William Le Queux - Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love (version 2)

A mysterious burgary of the British Consulate at Leghorn, coupled with the even more mysterious visit of an English yacht, leads to a trail of espionage and underground criminal activity that carries to reader to...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 55 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

480

R. Austin Freeman - Vanishing Man

A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in which a man has vanished. Perhaps he has died; perhaps not;but the issue is...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 50 minutes

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Literary Fiction

452

William Dean Howells - Indian Summer (version 2)

Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 47 minutes

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Single Author Collections

497

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts

Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 34 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

504

J. S. Fletcher - Ravensdene Court

Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court on the Northumbrian coast. There, Francis Raven, the owner, recently retired...

Nicholas Clifford 8 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

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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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Historical Fiction

477

Anatole France - Gods are Athirst

The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. The story follows the young Parisian painter Évariste...

Nicholas Clifford and 12 more 8 hours 32 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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