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The Widow Barnaby
Read by Celine Major
Frances Milton Trollope
The vain, flirtatious and presumptuous husband hunting Mrs. Barnaby delves into high-class society of which she knows very little leading to…
The Widow Married: A Sequel to The Widow Barnaby
Read by Celine Major
Frances Milton Trollope
EXCERPT: The existence of Mrs. Barnaby (this name is once more used as the one by which our heroine has hitherto been best known), the exist…
The Day Will Come
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismis…
The Barnaby's in America: Final sequel to The Widow Barnaby
Read by Celine Major
Frances Milton Trollope
I scruple not to confess that with all her faults, and she has some, I love her dearly : I owe her many mirthful moments, and the deeper ple…
Lost for Love
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; me…
The Interrupted Kiss
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Richard Marsh
Clare awakens in the middle of the night with no idea why. Her husband is not in his bed and as she goes in search of him she runs into her …
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters
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Susan Petigru King-Bowen
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends f…
The Clock Struck One
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Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume was a prolific writer of Victorian murder mysteries and The Clock Struck One is another great example of his inventive plots. Ju…
The Turnpike House
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Fergus Hume
A prolific writer of crime and detective stories Fergus Hume is known for his clever plots. The Turnpike House is another wonderful example …
A Poor Wise Man
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century Americ…
Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation
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Edward S. Van Zile
As the title suggests we are treated to three humourous and curious psychical transpositions in the cases of "When Reginald was Carolin…
The Women of the American Revolution Volume 1
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Elizabeth F. Ellet
Excerpt from Preface: Their patriotic sacrifices were made with an enthusiasm that showed the earnest spirit ready on every occasion to appe…
The Story of the French Revolution
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Ernest Belfort Bax
Preface Excerpt: "The following sketch of the course of the French Revolution was originally published during 1889 in serial form in &q…
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earn…
Gretchen
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Mary Jane Holmes
Rich and sophisticated Arthur Tracy returns to Tracy Park after several years abroad confused and mentally unstable. Initially claiming that…
One Life, One Love
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames.…
The Diamond Pin
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Carolyn Wells
Eccentric and wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell loves playing cruel jokes on her guests and particularly on her niece and nephew who are de…
Bessie's Fortune
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Mary Jane Holmes
The coverup of a murder leads to the search for the dead man's heiress decades later in this delightful 3 part novel by Mary Jane Holmes. He…
The Curved Blades
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Carolyn Wells
In this suspensful whodunit a mean-spirited and wealthy dowager is found murdered in her boudoir supposedly killed once by poison and also b…
The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement
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E. Sylvia Pankhurst
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the…