Phil Benson

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Francis Archibald Bruton - Lancashire

The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Steering clear of the industrial districts, F. A. Bruton takes the reader on an...

Phil Benson 5 hours 58 minutes

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Plays

461

One-Act Play Collection 003

This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by Edward Goodman, Alice Gerstenberg, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Anton Chekhov, Frank Wedekind, Moliere, Theresa Helburn, John Kendrick Bangs, and Harold...

Phil Benson 5 hours 46 minutes One-Act Play Collections

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Poetry

489

Adam Lindsay Gordon - Poems

This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'. «The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name....

Larry Wilson and 20 more 5 hours 22 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

440

William Morris - Story of the Glittering Plain

In this early example of the modern high fantasy genre, Hallblithe, a warrior of the House of Raven, sets out in pursuit of the pirates who have kidnapped his troth-plight maiden, the Hostage. Kidnapped himself,...

Phil Benson 5 hours 4 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Sports Fiction

418

Short Works on Sports Collection 01

A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The collection includes pieces on baseball, cricket, lacrosse, cycling, athletics,...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Single Author Collections

401

M. E. Francis - In a North Country Village

M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant...

Phil Benson 5 hours

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Short Stories

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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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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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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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History

476

David Dickinson Mann - Present Picture of New South Wales

Convicted of forgery at the age of 23, David Dickenson Mann narrowly escaped hanging and was transported instead to New South Wales, where he arrived in 1799. Three years later he received a full pardon and was soon...

Phil Benson 4 hours 26 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

411

Thomas Newbigging - Lancashire Characters and Places

An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford,...

Phil Benson 4 hours 20 minutes

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Travel & Geography

415

C. L. Freeston - Cycling in the Alps

A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular views are well worth the effort of pushing your bicycle up the passes and...

Phil Benson 3 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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