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Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

«David Copperfield» or «The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery» was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it...

valikojohn and 23 more 35 hours 41 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Eliot - Middlemarch

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's...

Guntar and 16 more 33 hours 1 minute

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General Fiction

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Ann Radcliffe - Mysteries of Udolpho

Considered a change agent in early Gothic romance; oft-referenced in later literary works or paid homage to by such authors as Jane Austen (influential novel ready by her heroine, Catherine Morland, in Northanger...

Michelle Crandall and 28 more 32 hours 1 minute

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General Fiction

Catherine Helen Spence - Mr Hogarth's Will

Jane and Elsie Melville were raised by their kindly but eccentric uncle, Mr Hogarth who believed that women were just as good as men, and thus gave his nieces a boy's education. Upon his death, they find that he has...

Karen Savage and 5 more 13 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 2

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Gesine and 13 more 12 hours 9 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Unknown - String of Pearls

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String of Pearls” in...

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Action & Adventure Fiction

H. Rider Haggard - She

At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Casket Leo and...

Geoff Cowgill and 11 more 11 hours 35 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Secret Passage

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: «That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek,...

Dawn Larsen and 6 more 9 hours 11 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black)

Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black ) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is...

Katie Gibboney and 3 more 7 hours 4 minutes

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Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John Charles Dent - Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated to Canada shortly after that event, bringing with them, of course, the youth...

Moira Fogarty and 9 more 5 hours 27 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Margaret O. Oliphant - Open Door and The Portrait

Two stories «of the seen and unseen» with mysterious occurrences by Margaret O. Oliphant, originally published in 1881. (Summary by Gesine)

Katie Gibboney and 1 more 3 hours 32 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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