Rachel Lintern

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Historical Fiction

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Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire...

hosmer_angel and 19 more 36 hours 5 minutes

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Romance

553

Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor

«If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply»… thus opens Lorna Doone, one of the best love stories ever written. The novel has inspired at least ten movies and mini-series. «John (in West Country dialect this...

humeangel and 10 more 27 hours 40 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Frances Sheridan - Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph — an undoubtedly good and dutiful woman — writes to her friend about everything: her marriage, her...

Rachel Lintern 21 hours 54 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

Since this series of books is intended for all young people from one to one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. Nothing better was ever invented to tell to little folks who are...

Cori Samuel and 39 more 19 hours 58 minutes

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Literary Fiction

462

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Asphodel

Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while… Forget that her...

Jim Locke and 3 more 19 hours 50 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Tobias Smollett - Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary...

David Lawrence and 7 more 17 hours 32 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wyvern Mystery

A classic with a pinch of romance, a pinch of gothic, and a dash of mystery, are you interested yet? When young Alice Maybell’ father dies she is taken in by Squire Fairfield, a widower with two handsome young sons,...

Amy and 11 more 15 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

510

Charlotte Brontë - Professor

The book tells the story of a young man named William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school. (Summary from Wikipedia, adapted by Stav Nisser)

Rachel Lintern and 5 more 10 hours 3 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Webb - Gone to Earth

«Gone to Earth» is the cry of fox hunters as the fox takes to its den and they lose the chase. Here, Mary Webb tells the story of Hazel Woodus whose understanding of her half tame fox cub contrasts with her...

Rachel Lintern 9 hours 41 minutes

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General Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas, fils - Camille

The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Theatre...

Bellona Times and 10 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Romance

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Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree

This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School . The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at the local church and we follow the fortunes of one member, Dick...

Rachel Lintern 6 hours 45 minutes

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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1

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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1

This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including Oliver Cromwell, Edmund...

David Federman and 8 more 5 hours 11 minutes UK Parliamentary Speeches

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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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