Phil Benson

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Travel Fiction

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Samuel Laycock - Travels in Lancashire

A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. — Summary by Phil Benson

Phil Benson 7 hours 41 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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John Ackworth - Doxie Dent

Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Clegg and his Beckside cronies with a novel. Jabez's niece, the young and...

Phil Benson 7 hours 26 minutes

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Romance

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - That Lass o' Lowrie's

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. For her first novels, written in Knoxville, Tennessee and published in New...

Phil Benson 7 hours 19 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

909

James Elroy Flecker - Collected Prose

Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story),...

Phil Benson and 5 more 7 hours 19 minutes

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Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)

Fantastic Fiction

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William Morris - Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)

William Morris initiated the genre of high fantasy in a number of short novels written toward the end of his life. But he had already experimented with the genre much earlier in stories written for the Oxford and...

Phil Benson 7 hours 10 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Biography & Autobiography

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Richard Gorton Barlow - Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket

R. G. «Dick» Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the batting with A. N. Hornby for Lancashire and England, often acting as a «stonewaller»...

Phil Benson 7 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

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John Ackworth - Clog Shop Chronicles

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. Clog Shop Chronicles was the...

Phil Benson 6 hours 52 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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David Lindsay - Haunted Woman

Isabel Loment is engaged to the affectionate, but unemotional, Marshall Stokes. House-hunting for her aunt, she comes to Runhill Court, an ancient home with a mysterious staircase that is only visible to those with...

Phil Benson 6 hours 36 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Literary Criticism

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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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Nat Gould - Who Did It?

Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. But no sooner is the campaign underway than his body turns up in Sydney...

Phil Benson 6 hours 13 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Sir Henry Newbolt - Aladore

Ywain, a knight bored with his administrative duties, abandons his estate to his younger brother and goes on a pilgrimage to seek his heart's desire. Following a will-o'-the-wisp resembling a child, his quest takes...

Phil Benson 6 hours 4 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 012

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

Amy Gramour and 16 more 6 hours 1 minute Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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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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