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20 - Part 3 chapter 1

In Basil

Read by Piper Hayes

Wilkie Collins

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…

37 - An Old Man's Complaint

In The Small House at Allington

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Anthony Trollope

Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her t…

30 - Chapter XXV: News from England

In Waverley, Volume 1

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Sir Walter Scott

Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…

The American Newspaper

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017

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Charles Dudley Warner

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Version 7

In Spring (Barber)

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Michael Fairless and Margaret Fairless Barber

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Spring by "Michael Fairless" (pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber). This was the F…

14 - Major Grantly Consults a Friend.

In The Last Chronicle of Barset

Read by Piper Hayes

Anthony Trollope

Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar…

12 - At Richmond

In The Duke's Children

Read by Piper Hayes

Anthony Trollope

In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…