Literature
Lady Susan (version 2)
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …
The Decameron
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Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and…
Camilla
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Frances Burney
Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels…
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Thomas Hardy
The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen …
Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2)
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Herman Melville
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymo…
Little Dorrit
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Charles Dickens
Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her ent…
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character&…
Lord of the World
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Robert Hugh Benson
“Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Hu…
The Card
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Arnold Bennett
The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginning…
Martin Eden
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Jack London
Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthl…
Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories
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Louisa May Alcott
Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection…
The Mill on the Floss
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George Eliot
The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evi…
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…
Mosses From An Old Manse
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes se…
A Daughter of the Land
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while …
O Pioneers!
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town ne…
Be Kind When You Can
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Eliza Cook
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Be Kind When You Can by Eliza Cook. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2011.E…
The Fifth Queen
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Ford Madox Ford
The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fif…
The Voyage Out
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Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Wool…