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Jane Eyre (version 2) - Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (version 2) - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governess at the remote Thornfield Hall. She finds a kindred spirit in her employer, the mysterious and brooding Mr....
The Mystery of the Locks - E. W. HOWE
The Mystery of the Locks - E. W. HOWE
- Author: E. W. HOWE
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Davy's Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared for river town. So when a stranger showed up one day and bought the old unoccupied house called 'The Locks' one dreary day, the inhabitants of the town were naturally very curious about the stranger, and very...
When Knights Were Bold - Eva March Tappan
When Knights Were Bold - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
This book is in no degree an attempt to relate the involved and intricate history of the Middle Ages. Its plan is, rather, to present pictures of the manner of life and habits of thought of the people who lived between the eighth and fifteenth...
On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War - G. A. Henty
On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the number of those engaged--as our first expedition to Burma. It was undertaken without any due comprehension of...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
Oh, Money! Money! - Eleanor H. Porter
Oh, Money! Money! - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Mr. Stanley Fulton is worth millions, but he has no one to leave his money to except some unknown distant cousins. In order to find out how they would handle a fortune, he decides to give each of them $100,000 dollars during his life, and go –...
Rudder Grange - Frank R. Stockton
Rudder Grange - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: General Fiction
This book presents a number of short, comedic sketches of a country life in middle America in the late 1800s. The hilarious twists and turns endear our adorable, naive married couple to the reader; and the orphan servant Pomona - dear, odd, funny...
Pierre and Luce - Romain ROLLAND
Pierre and Luce - Romain ROLLAND
- Author: Romain ROLLAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / War & Military Fiction
Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted pacifist, and Luce, the free spirited artist in training, and both confused about the things going on around...
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Gothic Fiction
The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, Gothic novel, and travel guide. In the spring of...
No Name - Wilkie Collins
No Name - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it is revealed that they were not...
Zadig or the Book of Fate - Voltaire
Zadig or the Book of Fate - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
Zadig, ou La Destinée, ("Zadig, or The Book of Fate") (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does not attempt any historical...
The Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2 - Henry James
The Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2 - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Psychology
This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the...
Subspace Survivors - Lee Hawkins GARBY
Subspace Survivors - Lee Hawkins GARBY
- Author: Lee Hawkins GARBY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
A team of space travelers are caught in a subspace accident which, up to now, no one has ever survived. But some of the survivors of the Procyon are not ordinary travelers. Their psi abilities allow them to see things before they happen. But will it...
Jacqueline of Golden River - Victor ROUSSEAU
Jacqueline of Golden River - Victor ROUSSEAU
- Author: Victor ROUSSEAU
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Jacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But she remembers nothing of any incident, remembers not her name nor where she comes from, not even why she is...
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny. He...
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper - Sax Rohmer
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in the mysterious East. (Introduction by Laineyben)...
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice, faith and infidelities, this dark...
Pollyanna (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The story begins when Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her Aunt Polly, a strict and dutiful middle aged woman. Pollyanna immediately begins to brighten up everyone's life by the "Glad Game." Trying to find something to be glad about...
The Old Manor House - Charlotte Turner Smith
The Old Manor House - Charlotte Turner Smith
- Author: Charlotte Turner Smith
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The proud, cruel and arrogant Mrs. Rayland never married. Therefore, "Rayland Hall", the old Manor House of the title, had to pass to their heir, Somerive, whom they never treated kindly. According to the British laws at the time, the heir must be...
Mansfield Park (version 2) - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, "married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward...
The King of Schnorrers - Israel Zangwill
The King of Schnorrers - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction
Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of late 18th-century London. Manasseh is far from being a humble panhandler for, as every schnorrer knows,...
J. Poindexter, Colored - Irvin S. Cobb
J. Poindexter, Colored - Irvin S. Cobb
- Author: Irvin S. Cobb
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Priest, while the judge is vacationing abroad. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)...
The Hoosier Schoolmaster - Edward EGGLESTON
The Hoosier Schoolmaster - Edward EGGLESTON
- Author: Edward EGGLESTON
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes. You might teach a summer school, when nothin' but...
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore - Mary Cowden CLARKE
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore - Mary Cowden CLARKE
- Author: Mary Cowden CLARKE
- Genre: General Fiction
This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice to Lady Macbeth. In her revision of Ophelia from Hamlet, she creates a...
The Card - Arnold Bennett
The Card - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery...
The Battle of Life - Charles Dickens
The Battle of Life - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, "A Love Story", reveals more of...
Resurrection, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction
Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the...
Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories:* "The Offshore Pirate"* "The Ice Palace"* "Head and Shoulders"* "The Cut-Glass Bowl"* "Bernice Bobs Her...
Main Street (Version 2) - Sinclair Lewis
Main Street (Version 2) - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to the rural Minnesota town of...
Cousin Phillis - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cousin Phillis - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction
Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of...
Aaron's Rod - D. H. Lawrence
Aaron's Rod - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: General Fiction
Flutist Aaron Sisson is caught up in the aftermath of WWI. A lost soul, he attempts to find himself in the comfort of bar-room talk and alcohol and a woman. Moving on, he spends time with a mining executive's relatives. But he finds the family a...
Ayala's Angel - Anthony Trollope
Ayala's Angel - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their poor uncle Mr Dosett. The girls find it hard to get used to their new surroundings. Lucy becomes engaged to...
The Marrow of Tradition - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation,...
Protagoras - Plato
Protagoras - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The dialectic brings the thinkers to a...
These Twain - Arnold Bennett
These Twain - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
Hilda is saved from destitution by Edwin Clayhanger who marries her. The two, with Hilda's son by her disastrous 'marriage' to George Cannon, are living in Bursley. Edwin does not enjoy an entirely happy marriage with Hilda because of her...
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....
The White Feather - P. G. Wodehouse
The White Feather - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction
Sheen, a member of Seymour's House at Wrykyn School, flees from an unexpected assault by town boys. His colleagues wade into the fight with relish, acquiring bruises and sore heads, but in the fracas, Sheen is missed, and the story makes the rounds...
The Eight Strokes of the Clock - Maurice Leblanc
The Eight Strokes of the Clock - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: General Fiction
The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. The stories have his most famous creation, Arsène Lupin, gentleman-thief, as main character. The eight stories, even though independent, have a leading thread:...
The Call Of The Canyon - Zane Grey
The Call Of The Canyon - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Westerns
Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo Hutter Kilbourne's fiancée, Carley Burch arrives in Arizona but soon becomes disillusioned with life in the...
Nights With Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
Nights With Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old "Africa man" visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants;...
