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17 - The Disabilities

In Is He Popenjoy ?

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Anthony Trollope

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…

The Prisoner Is Remanded

In 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…

Chapter VIII

In A Rogue's Life

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Wilkie Collins

"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens f…

chapter 59

In The Wanderer

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Frances Burney

This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. "Who is "Miss Ellis?" Why di…

Chapter 13 - The Island and the Wreck

In The Wrecker

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Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling,…

16 - The Jewel in the Matrix

In 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…

Chapter IV

In The Hunted Woman

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James Oliver Curwood

This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins "It was all new - most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who …

06 - Chapter 6: Sentence of Exile

In Fenton's Quest

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …