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5 books
General Fiction
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Stephen Crane - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called «the first dark flower of American Naturalism» for its distinctive elements of naturalistic fiction. The chief character, Maggie, descends...
2 hours 46 minutes
Romance
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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...
27 hours 40 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
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Louisa May Alcott - Work: A Story of Experience
It is one of «several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work» The story depicts the struggles...
12 hours 48 minutes