Phil Benson

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Historical Fiction

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William Morris - Roots of the Mountains

The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third was not completed). It follows the themes of House of the Wolfings, which was...

Phil Benson 15 hours 5 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Short Stories

625

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Short stories (Early works 1837-1852)

A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her short works for Charles Dickens's Household Words magazine between 1850 and...

Phil Benson 4 hours 56 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

515

Cenydd Morus - Fates of the Princes of Dyfed

Cenydd Morus's (Kenneth Morris) imaginative retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the great work of Welsh literature first recorded in the 12th-13th century. Written while he was working for the Theosophical Society...

Phil Benson 11 hours Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Single author

428

Benjamin Stott - Songs for the Millions, and other poems

Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the Millions, a suite of seventeen short poems in which Stott experimented with...

Phil Benson 1 hour 50 minutes

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Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London

Single author

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John Gay - Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London

John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig thieves, falling masonry and the contents of chamber pots, and above all else...

Phil Benson 1 hour 9 minutes

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Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

Travel & Geography

452

William Hutchinson - Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake District. Accompanied by his brother, George Allan, he travelled by horseback from...

Phil Benson 2 hours 26 minutes

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Travel & Geography

478

John Edward Marr - North Lancashire

Cambridge County Geographies was a 75 volume series covering the counties of England, Scotland and Wales. Separate volumes were produced for Lancashire north and south of the River Ribble. J. E. Marr's volume on North...

Phil Benson 3 hours 37 minutes

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Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

Fantasy Fiction

470

William Morris - Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

A prose romance set in the forested kingdom of Oakenrealm, where a squirrel can go about from end to end without touching the ground, in which Christopher wins the fair queen Goldilind, discovers his true identity and...

Phil Benson 4 hours 42 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Literary Criticism

506

Charles Harold Herford - Six lectures on literature

C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pamphlet form. The six lectures in this collection span Herford's career at the...

Phil Benson 6 hours 18 minutes

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Birth of Professional Rugby League in Australia: A selection from the Sydney Morning Herald (1907-08)

Sports & Recreation

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Sydney Morning Herald - Birth of Professional Rugby League in Australia: A selection from the Sydney Morning Herald (1907-08)

In early 1907 the world of Australian rugby was rocked by the news that a professional New Zealand All Blacks team was set to tour the northern counties of Engliand, where professional rugby had been a reality for...

Phil Benson 4 hours 31 minutes

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Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician

Fantasy Fiction

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Edwin Lester Arnold - Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician

Phra, a Phoenician merchant and warrior, settles in the south of England as husband to Blodwen, a British princess. Slain during the Roman invasion, he reawakens several hundred years later to find that Blodwen has...

Phil Benson 15 hours 54 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Travel & Geography

455

Lonsdale Ragg - Things Seen in Venice

Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art. Most European cities have changed so much that a 1920 guidebook would be of...

Phil Benson 2 hours 50 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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