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Seven Little Australians

Read by Ophelia Darcy

Ethel Turner

This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is sc…

Andrea Cavalcanti

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

Chapter 5 – Turning a New Leaf

In Villette

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Charlotte Brontë

After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …

Essentials of English Grammar

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

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Joseph Devlin

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

The Corpse

In The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin

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Maurice Leblanc

Arsène Lupin returns in a wonderful story of disguises, love, and of course treasure. Once again, Lupin crosses paths with the famous…

A NOVICE AMONGST THE GREAT FOLK

In Wives and Daughters

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest Brit…

The Love Story of the Awkward Man

In The Golden Road

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L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery

In the sequel to The Story Girl, Sara Stanley returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town…

Chapter 02

In Dot and the Kangaroo

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Ethel C. Pedley

Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian…

bk1_01 - Book the First - Chapter 01 ON THE LOOK OUT

In Our Mutual Friend

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Charles Dickens

Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …