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Fanny Burney - Camilla

Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels, in her novel Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh!...

Adrian Wheal and 15 more 40 hours 5 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife

This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before...

corin2of7 and 19 more 24 hours 18 minutes

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46, priced at a penny each. Serialised novels sold in this way were known as...

Cori Samuel and 20 more 22 hours 43 minutes

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Harriet Martineau - Deerbrook

A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero. Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional...

Arielle Lipshaw and 6 more 22 hours 7 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Three Clerks

The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a good deal of travelling; to make life easier for himself, Trollope had...

alwpoe and 8 more 20 hours 45 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the «Chronicles of Barsetshire», first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. (Summary by Wikipedia) «Of all novelists...

Leonard Wilson and 7 more 20 hours 32 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Mrs. Henry Wood - Channings

This is a saga about life in a small town in England during the Victorian era. The «stars» of this saga are the Channings. Mr. Channing was ill and, because of his poverty, his six children have to work. Many things...

Elizabeth Klett and 12 more 20 hours 6 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Claverings

«I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict.» — the author The Claverings is the best wrought of the novels designed for The Cornhill, and as...

bobolink and 9 more 19 hours 56 minutes

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George Gissing - New Grub Street

«The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution,...

Bridget Gaige and 10 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Vixen

This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, are childhood sweethearts. However, Rorie's family wants him to marry...

CaprishaPage and 9 more 18 hours 38 minutes

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Charles James Lever - Fortunes of Glencore

Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the marriage and therefore...

Clay Beauchamp and 12 more 17 hours 12 minutes

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wylder's Hand

The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people involved do not seem to like the idea. Before the wedding, Mark disappears. But...

Tina Nuzzi and 11 more 17 hours 1 minute

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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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