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Faces and Places
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Sir Henry W. Lucy
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, wh…
Women in Love
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D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…
The Seven Poor Travellers
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Charles Dickens
One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter r…
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
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Rees Howell Gronow
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century P…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flat…
A House to Let
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Charles Dickens
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…
Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream
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John Kendrick Bangs
From Alice in Blunderland: "Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--" "Mercy…
The Magic World
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E. Nesbit
Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of sto…
The History of London
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Walter Besant
Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth …
Wuthering Heights (Version 2)
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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet…
Birds in the Calendar
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Frederick G. Aflalo
Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This c…
The Magic City
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E. Nesbit
Philip and Lucy discover that the city Philip has built using toys, books and household objects, has come alive. This is the account of thei…
Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01
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Various
This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
After London, or Wild England
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Richard Jefferies
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has …
In Kent with Charles Dickens
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Thomas Frost
By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…
Tea-table Talk
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Jerome K. Jerome
As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glitte…
The Woman Who Did
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Grant Allen
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…
Mental Efficiency
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Arnold Bennett
In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life…
Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces
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Thomas W. Hanshew
Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but t…
Told after Supper
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Jerome K. Jerome
It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of…