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The Carriage

In There and Back

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George MacDonald

An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …

The Workhouse Doctor

In Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

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Andrew Forrester

This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” …

'How Should I Greet Thee?'

In Rough Justice

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were ther…

Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy

In Victorian Stories of Troubled Marriages

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Ella D'Arcy

Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are …

Chapter IX

In The Romance of the Animal World

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Edmund Selous

A description of the animal world, from the smallest protozoa all the way to man eating tigers!

Preface

In Rose in Bloom, Version 2

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Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published in 1876 and is a sequel to Eight Cousins. It depicts the story of a nineteenth-centu…

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