Phil Benson

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Fantasy Fiction

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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Historical Fiction

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Isabella Varley Banks - Manchester Man

Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to commercial success mirrors the rise of the city at the heart of the...

Phil Benson 15 hours 35 minutes

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Historical Fiction

953

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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Modern (20th C)

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John Reed - Ten Days that Shook the World

Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent...

Debra and 11 more 14 hours 42 minutes

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Hard Times (version 2), Locked Out and On Strike

Published 1800 -1900

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Charles Dickens - Hard Times (version 2), Locked Out and On Strike

Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical cast of larger than life characters, the novel is a vehicle for a humanist...

Phil Benson 11 hours 41 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

953

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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Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

Humorous Fiction

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Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary),...

Phil Benson 10 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Short Stories (Household Words 1850-53)

Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1853 In addition to three serialized novels, Cranford, North and South, and My Lady Ludlow,...

Phil Benson 9 hours 57 minutes

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Early Modern

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Elizabeth Raffald - Experienced English Housekeeper

'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six morels, half a pint of red wine, three quarts of water, bake it in a quick...

Phil Benson 9 hours 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Old Adam

Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midlands 'Five Towns'. Yet when he unexpectedly gains three hundred and forty-one...

Phil Benson and 6 more 9 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

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John Ackworth - Beckside Lights

John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Beckside Lights is the sequel to...

Phil Benson 8 hours 1 minute

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Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland

Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Gershom Collingwood - Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland

A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among Saxon, British and Norse rulers. Thorstein, like his father Swein before...

Phil Benson 7 hours 51 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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