General Fiction

The Story Of A Modern Woman

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Ella Hepworth Dixon



"This touching short novel tells the story of Mary Earl, a woman who has to fend for herself in London at the end of the 19th century. …

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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George Meredith



After his wife's desertion, Sir Austin wants to bring up his son according to a strict educational system governing every aspect of his life…

Something Childish, but very Natural

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge



LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Something Childish, but very Natural by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry p…

The Golden Scarecrow

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Hugh Walpole



Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The G…

The Beautiful Lady

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Booth Tarkington



Raffaele Ansolini is down on his luck: living in Paris is not quite so amazing if there are no funds to finance the amusement. So Ansolini h…

Hawk of Egypt

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Joan Conquest



A tragic love triangle between a beautiful English girl, an English gentleman, and a half-English, half-Egyptian plays out among the ruins a…

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

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Eleanor Farjeon



The wandering minstrel Martin Pippin finds a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to visit the orchard where his beloved has been locked in the w…

The Dixie Book of Days

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Page Andrews



The author used a yearly calendar to focus on pieces written by Southern authors. Many of these writers are little known, having created for…

The Black Poodle and Other Tales

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F. Anstey



This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)

Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer

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Sir Walter Scott



Guy Mannering is a young astrologer, just down from Oxford. While travelling in Scotland, he loses his way and unexpectedly comes to stay at…

Slovenly Betsy

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Heinrich Hoffmann



Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…

The Tragic Muse

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Henry James



Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the "tr…

The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



From the Preface:I HAVE written "Impressions and Tales" upon the title-page of this volume, because I have included within the sam…

The Heart's Kingdom

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Maria Thompson Daviess



Nickols Powers is in love with the beautiful Charlotte and desperate to marry her. Charlotte however, is independent and reluctant to accept…

Bealby; A Holiday

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H. G. Wells



Bealby is the comical story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the g…

The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibil…

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Stephen Leacock



More stories by Canadian Stephen Leacock. Some of these stories carry over characters introduced in Further Foolishness. Some stories are hu…

A Christmas Miscellany

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Various



A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales

To the Man of the High North

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Robert W. Service



LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of To the Man of the High North by Robert Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for No…

The Visioning, A Novel

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Susan Glaspell



"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with…

The Younger Sister

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Catherine Anne Hubback



Emma Watson, the youngest child of six from a poor family, was sent away as a child to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle. When her unc…

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