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Literary Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Just As I Am

The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate of the county that he murdered the popular Mr. Blake. He even told the...

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Published 1800 -1900

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. IV

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of...

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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George Gissing - Crown Of Life

So what is the crown of life? Follow the journey of Piers and Irene as they attempt to discover. It is both a coming of age novel and love story at the same time, one which would bring delight to philosophers with...

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Strangers And Pilgrims

Strangers and Pilgrims follows the journey of Elizabeth Lutterell from a vain, beautiful and self-centred although good-hearted 19 year old to a mature woman. She begins her journey to maturity when she meets the...

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Romance

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Elinor Glyn - Visits of Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a young and naive debutante who is travelling around England and France fom one house party to the next, visiting friends and family, in search of a suitable husband. She is a rather good correspondent,...

Marta A and 5 more 5 hours 15 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Frost at Midnight

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He...

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Family Life

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Florence Morse Kingsley - Neighbors

The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conclusion and Miss Malvina’s life is changed forever by the arrival of various...

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Published 1900 onward

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Florence Morse Kingsley - Heart of Philura

(Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women working to support themselves or their families, in jobs that will soon...

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Published 1900 onward

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Florence Morse Kingsley - Miss Philura's Wedding Gown

Follow-up to «The Transfiguration of Miss Philura»....will the conviction of mild-mannered Miss Philura that «Ask and you have already received» be proved right or will her hopes be dashed, and the disapproving...

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Published 1900 onward

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Florence Morse Kingsley - Transfiguration of Miss Philura

What would happen if someone really believed that «Ask and you shall receive»? Amusing observations on the impact on the life of mild-mannered spinster Miss Philura and her acquaintances in their small American...

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Windhover

«Windhover» is another name for the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air,...

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Poetry

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D. H. Lawrence - Love Poems and Others

This is a collection of poems by DH Lawrence. Most of the poems concern love and neighboring emotions, but some poems also concern other themes. — Summary by Carolin

Melissa Perry and 7 more 1 hour 20 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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