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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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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...

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Anthony Trollope - Castle Richmond

Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fitzgerald and his cousin Owen Fitzgerald. Clara – whose previously ‘great’...

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Anthony Trollope - John Caldigate

After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage,...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sir Thomas Malory - Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 2

Le Morte d’Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d’Arthur, “the death of Arthur”) is Sir Thomas Malory’s compilation of some French and...

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Arnold Bennett - Clayhanger (Version 2)

A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, Darius, and so works in the family printing business. Edwin eventually takes...

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Arnold Bennett - These Twain

Hilda is saved from destitution by Edwin Clayhanger who marries her. The two, with Hilda's son by her disastrous 'marriage' to George Cannon, are living in Bursley. Edwin does not enjoy an entirely happy marriage with...

Simon Evers 15 hours 18 minutes The Clayhanger Family

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Mary Augusta Ward - Marriage of William Ashe

William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband in his career, instead does exactly as she pleases. The book follows the...

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Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It...

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Thomas Hardy - Laodicean

The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she is determined to restore. Being of a modern frame of mind, she has the...

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Anthony Trollope - Rachel Ray

The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman — wishes him to marry one of her own daughters, while Rachel's mother and older...

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Thomas Hardy - Hand of Ethelberta

Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her father-in-law, Lord Petherwin, died...

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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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