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Thomas Hardy - Ruined Maid

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from...

annie70 and 11 more 24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress (version 2)

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John...

Amelia Chesley and 12 more 38 minutes

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King James Version

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV) 18: Job (version 3)

The Book of Job, memorably conceived of by C G Jung as the story of one man's struggle to make conscious the undifferentiated contents of the unconscious, is in its own terms an intensive study of the age old problem...

Tony Addison 2 hours 7 minutes Bible (King James Version)

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Woman in White - version 2

Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among «people like us», Featuring...

Tony Addison 30 hours 8 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Francis Marion Crawford - Wandering Ghosts

This is a collection of seven ghost stories by Francis Marion Crawford. The volume includes all of the essential ingredients for good ghost and horror stories, such as mysterious deaths, haunted houses, and even...

Dan Gurzynski and 4 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Taras Bulba and Other Tales

A collection of classic Russian literature from the mind of one of the world's well know authors. The collection includes Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait,...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Poor Folk

Known as Fyodor Dostoyevski's first novel, Poor Folk portrays the life of poor people and poverty in a general sense. This novel is short in comparison to most of Fyodor's other works and is applauded for its...

Tony Addison and 1 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Poetry

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Edward G. Flight - Horse Shoe

An hilarious telling in verse of the tale of St. Dunstan and the Devil, in which the Saint, angered by the Devil's mocking of his music-making, responds by shoeing Old Clootie forcibly which, despite the fact he has a...

Tony Addison 42 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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Wilkie Collins - Moonstone (version 2)

Said to be the first detective novel ever written, it is wonderful for its blending of the intrigues of romance with the conventional sleights of hand of the mystery novel. Marvellous also for its sensitive portrayal...

Tony Addison 24 hours 29 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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David Garnett - Lady Into Fox (Version 2)

An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly wild antics, that is, her essential fox nature. A unique take on the...

Tony Addison 2 hours 51 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Bridge Builders

A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically, Mother Gunga, Goddess of the River Ganga, against the men who confine her power, The Bridge Builders is also a tale of the death of the Gods as their...

Tony Addison 1 hour 40 minutes

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Poetry

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Edgar Allan Poe - Bells and Other Poems

This is a collection of the most famous poems by Edgar Allan Poe. It includes all of his most famous poems, such as the Bells and Annabel Lee, but also some minor and less well-known poems. Readers may wish to refer...

Sonia and 11 more 2 hours 12 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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