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My First Book
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Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
Six lectures on literature
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Charles Harold Herford
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…
The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763
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Samuel Madden, Charles Oman and Charles William Chadwick Oman
Imagine a world in which there were no major revolutionary upheavals (the American, French and Russian revolutions did not occur), there was…
Bell Upon Organ
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George MacDonald
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in t…
Poems
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George Santayana
George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his…
The Unclassed
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George Gissing
The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors living in London in the late 19th century. Both of them fall in love. …
Victorian Literature
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Clement Shorter
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
An International Episode
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Henry James
Two men visiting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, mis…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 004
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Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
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A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 005
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LibriVox readers bring you 10 full-cast productions: from stories and fables for children, to a comical, self-satirizing play; from short my…
George Sand
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Bertha Thomas
A Victorian Novelist herself, Bertha Thomas presents a biography of the Life of George Sand - Summary by Christine Rottger
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
England's Antiphon
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George MacDonald
"In this book I have sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from an early period of our literary history. ... [I]f its poet…
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
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Vachel Lindsay
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from t…
The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream
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Louis Pope Gratacap
This book is ostensibly about a theoretical catastrophic geologic event. It turns into a meditation on what it means to be an English person…
The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography
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Silas Weir Mitchell
Departing from the usual third person narratives of biographies, this account is told in the first person as the reminiscences of a now reti…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 16
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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 18
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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…