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The Visioning, A Novel - Susan Glaspell
The Visioning, A Novel - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with a charming circle of friends. Her brother is an army officer, and her uncle lives in Washington. The world she...
The Heron Nest - W. Bert FOSTER
The Heron Nest - W. Bert FOSTER
- Author: W. Bert FOSTER
- Genre: Family Life / Gardening
Pleasant family drama set in early 1900's or late 1890's upstate New York. The Herron clan, led by heroic, inventive, handicapped older brother Billy, has fallen on hard times due to one of the depressions that occurred before the Great one of the...
One Day More - Joseph Conrad
One Day More - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Family Life / Drama
A one-act play. Eccentric (crazy?) Captain Hagberd has been waiting for years for his son to come home from the sea. He has scrimped and saved, outfitting a house for Harry to inherit upon his return, which will be in only "one day more." He has...
Stories of Successful Marriages - Walter Besant
Stories of Successful Marriages - Walter Besant
- Author: Walter Besant
- Genre: Family Life
A collection of short stories by celebrated authors on the subject of successful marriages. Pieces originally appeared in other publications between 1858 and 1900 and were brought together by Walter Besant. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
On Our Selection - Steele RUDD
On Our Selection - Steele RUDD
- Author: Steele RUDD
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wilderness in spite of fire, famine, snakebite, and a loony hired hand. - Summary by Son of the Exiles...
The Subjection Of Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
The Subjection Of Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Author: Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Genre: Family Life
This is a sequel to "Concerning Isabel Carnaby". Isabel and Paul Seaton are now happily married. This book tells about their trials and tribulations, their little son, and, of course, their love for each other. - Summary by Stav Nisser....
By The Turtles of Tasman - Jack London
By The Turtles of Tasman - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Family Life
Turn of the century sibling rivalry between successful but uptight California businessman and his ne'er-do-well older brother, both widowers with equally-different 20-ish daughters. Written in 1911. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
Concerning Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
Concerning Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Author: Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of her because she is an orphan. But she will surprise everybody. - Summary by Stav Nisser....
Palmetto Leaves - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Palmetto Leaves - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Family Life / Biography & Autobiography
After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they lived during the winter months. Over the years they expanded their cottage to accommodate many guests (now a...
Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry - Samuel GORDON
Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry - Samuel GORDON
- Author: Samuel GORDON
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction / Religious Fiction
Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' commitment to improving the lives of working class people leads them to concoct The Scheme to help both the...
The Mother and the Child - Maria MONTESSORI
The Mother and the Child - Maria MONTESSORI
- Author: Maria MONTESSORI
- Genre: Family Life / *Non-fiction
"The mother and the child" is a lecture given by Maria Montessori in 1915. The famous educational reformer speaks about the importance to give children freedom and a suitable environment, so they will be able to fully develop according to their own...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Literary Fiction
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who, at the end of Volume 1, is thrown out of his family home and...
Doctor Thorne (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
This is the third book in The Chronicles of Barsetshire, the first two being The Warden and Barchester Towers; however, although some characters from the first two books are referred to, there is no need to read/ listen to them first to enjoy Dr....
The Elements of Mammalogy - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Mammalogy - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: Family Life / *Non-fiction / Animals
The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to mammalogy. The information, albeit not current,...
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Family Life / Single Author Collections
This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. The focus is widened a bit to include a few works about Thanksgiving Day and New Yearβs Day. LMM was a prolific...
Human Toll - Barbara BAYNTON
Human Toll - Barbara BAYNTON
- Author: Barbara BAYNTON
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by station hands, Boshy, Nungi,and Queeby, at her new home, in a nearby country town, she is barely tolerated....
A Christmas Miscellany - Various
A Christmas Miscellany - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Single author
A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales...
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Family
When a neighbor brings word that Grandma is sick, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett hurry off to tend to her, leaving their seven children to prepare for Thanksgiving on their own. The story of the adventures of Eph, Tilly, Prue, Seth, Sol, Roxy, and Rhody...
The Friendship of Anne: A Story - Ellen Douglas DELAND
The Friendship of Anne: A Story - Ellen Douglas DELAND
- Author: Ellen Douglas DELAND
- Genre: Family Life / School
This is the story of Sydney Stuart who is sent to a girls' boarding school (to her disgust) with all its difficulties and adventures. Sydney Stuart and her school roomate/rival Bertha Macy vie for the friendship of schoolmate Anne Talbot. Summary by...
Demos: A Story of English Socialism - George Gissing
Demos: A Story of English Socialism - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Family Life
"Richard Mutimer is delighted to inherit a large fortune. As a socialist, he means to use it well: he will open a factory in which workers would be treated well, he will advance his party's causes through his own wealth... At least, so he thinks....
Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl - Unknown
Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm steady faith while her younger sister chafes against the injustice of their lot in life. She is determined...
Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection) - Steele RUDD
Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection) - Steele RUDD
- Author: Steele RUDD
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection" "The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eight years he had been thinking of that trip, but something or other always came to prevent his going. According to Dad...
Living With Our Children: A Book of Little Essays for Mothers - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Living With Our Children: A Book of Little Essays for Mothers - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Family Life
This book is a collection of small essays to help parents better understand their children and offer help to parents in the task of raising them. To quote from the preface, βIt is hoped that the very simplicity and homeliness of method of this book...
Tante - Anne Douglas SEDGWICK
Tante - Anne Douglas SEDGWICK
- Author: Anne Douglas SEDGWICK
- Genre: Family Life
It is a common trend, up until this very day, to reveal the difficult side of being a great artist. Madame Okraska is no different. Great artists are, sometimes, very complicated. Sometimes the price of success is too high, for them and for those...
The Spirit of Christmas (version 2) - Henry van Dyke
The Spirit of Christmas (version 2) - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Family Life / Single Author Collections
A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man (Summary by D. Leeson)....
Sentimental Tommy - J. M. Barrie
Sentimental Tommy - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
"J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tommy novels, as they are collectively referred to, are also about a child who does not want to grow up. Yet, unlike...
Fireside Christmas Short Stories - Various
Fireside Christmas Short Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Family Life / Short Stories
A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection is unique: some make us pause to consider the meaning of Christmas, others entertain and make us smile. So...
The Confessions of a Daddy - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Confessions of a Daddy - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Family Life
The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have trouble with anyone of their neighbors. Why should they, as...
They and I - Jerome K. Jerome
They and I - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
A man and his three children leave the βLittle Motherβ at home in the city and set up temporary housekeeping in a country cottage to supervise the remodeling of the house he has just purchased there. The story is narrated by the father. His...
The Woman in White - version 2 - Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White - version 2 - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Literary Fiction
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among "people like us", Featuring unforgettable characters such as the...
The Wheat Princess - Jean Webster
The Wheat Princess - Jean Webster
- Author: Jean Webster
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Family Life / Romance
Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she brings the money to support it. Her adventures in Rome are different than she anticipated. Rich and poor...
Miss Billy Married - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy Married - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
At the opening to this second sequel to Miss Billy (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, Miss Billy Married), we find Bertram and Billy finally at the altar. Will wedded bliss ensue and are the patter of little feet on the horizon? Or is...
Elsie's Children - Martha Finley
Elsie's Children - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Family Life / Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
This book continues the delightful "Elsie Dinsmore" series. Elsie's children, introduced in the previous volume, live life, grow up, and encounter various problems of their own. - Summary by GabrielleCAdditional Proof Listeners: AlaynaMay &...
The Brothers Karamazov (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Described as the Great Book of Wonders by Arthur Miller, this everyday tale of fraternal affection, sibling rivalry, obsession, lust, parricide, family intrigue, spiritual faith, death by economic deprivation and ultimate salvation in the soul,...
Marriage, volume 2 - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
Marriage, volume 2 - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Author: Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
Lady Juliana is the daughter of the Earl of Courtland. She receives a marriage proposal from a wealthy Duke but much to the horror of her father she elopes to Gretna Green a Scottish soldier Henry Douglas. She is disowned and Douglas is dismissed....
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil - Anthony Trollope
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Family Life / Historical Fiction
Harry Heathcote is an English βsquatterβ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sister Kate live with him. Giles Medlicott owns a sugar plantation and mill nearby. Two of Harryβs former...
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Historical Fiction
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers...
The Enchanted Barn - Grace Livingston Hill
The Enchanted Barn - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low...
Her Benny - Silas HOCKING
Her Benny - Silas HOCKING
- Author: Silas HOCKING
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
A very heart touching story about two homeless children, a brother and sister, living on the streets of Liverpool, England during Victorian times. (Summary by Larraine Paquette)...
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
- Author: Kahlil Gibran
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction / Free Verse
The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his words of wisdom on many sides of the human condition, and he addresses them in terms of love and care. He has...
