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Village Life in America

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Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke


A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

Birds of Prey

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This boo…

Orley Farm

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Anthony Trollope


Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Henry Dunbar

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committ…

Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


The story of three "middle aged ladies". Follow along as they have all sorts of adventures. - Summary by Sandra More Tish stories…

The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

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Elizabeth Von Arnim


Elizabeth von Arnim, author of Vera and The Enchanted April, takes us on a novelized journey through the German island and vacation getaway …

The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…

In the Bishop's Carriage

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Miriam Michelson


Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…

The Young Diana

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Marie Corelli


Poor Diana May. Her fiancé has jilted her, her parents think she is an encumbrance and no one recognises her intelligence. She seems …

The Transfiguration of Miss Philura

Read by Anne Fletcher


Florence Morse Kingsley


What would happen if someone really believed that "Ask and you shall receive"? Amusing observations on the impact on the life of m…

Our Village, Volume 1

Read by Anne Fletcher


Mary Russell Mitford


This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about…

Notwithstanding

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Mary Cholmondeley


The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a …

Cousin Phillis

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mo…

More Tish

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The…

Crome Yellow, Version 2

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Aldous Huxley


Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. T…

Annie Kilburn

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William Dean Howells


After 11 years in Rome, Annie Kilburn returns home to the US after the death of her father. But the home she knew is dramatically changed in…

Black Oxen

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Gertrude Atherton


Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet…

White April

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Harold Vinal


In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…

The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Charlotte Brontë was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters who have become standards of English literatu…

Orlando, A Biography (version 2)

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Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

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