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The Little Colonel in Arizona - Annie Fellows Johnston


The Little Colonel in Arizona - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Family
In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the mother's illness, have to move from Kentucky to Arizona. Joyce now has to take most of the responsibility for...
The Return (de la Mare version) - Walter De la Mare


The Return (de la Mare version) - Walter De la Mare
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A story of psychological horror, The Return explores ideas of identity, love, and alienation. Arthur grapples with the reactions of his family and community, and his own sanity, when he experiences a sudden and mysterious "transformation". ( Summary...
The Song of the Lark - Willa Sibert Cather


The Song of the Lark - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction
Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place supposedly located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her hometown to go...
Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts - Various


Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Performing Arts
This is the twelfth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have...
Personality Plus - Edna Ferber


Personality Plus - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction
Personality Plus is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronicling the travels and events in the life of Emma McChesney. Ferber achieved her first successes...
The History of Lady Julia Mandeville - Frances Moore BROOKE


The History of Lady Julia Mandeville - Frances Moore BROOKE
- Author: Frances Moore BROOKE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Lady Julia, the daughter of the earl of Belmont, and Mr. Henry Mandeville are falling in love. Though Henry is like a family friend, this love is not welcomed because the lady Julia is promised to someone else (or so Henry thinks). When they'll...
The Spoils of Poynton - Henry James


The Spoils of Poynton - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda Vetch, when both of them find themselves guests in the tasteless house of Brigstock family. Mrs. Gereth fears...
Adeline Mowbray - Amelia OPIE


Adeline Mowbray - Amelia OPIE
- Author: Amelia OPIE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Everybody makes mistakes, and everything has a price. This novel describes, according to its name, the life of Adeline Mowbray, full of everything: sorrow, happiness, falsehood, truth, kindness, and mistakes. This novel is an exploration of the...
The Pathway of the Pioneer - Dolf WYLLARDE


The Pathway of the Pioneer - Dolf WYLLARDE
- Author: Dolf WYLLARDE
- Genre: General Fiction
The story of seven girls who have banded themselves together for mutual help and cheer under the name of "Nous Autres." They represent, collectively, the professions open to women of no deliberate training, though well educated. They are introduced...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2) - Mark Twain


Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction
In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he arrives but finds the transition to heavenly bliss a little disconcerting. – Although first drafted in the...
The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen


The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fall in love" and get married. But it is not so for Herminia Barton and Alan Merrick. They do indeed fall in love,...
Summer (version 2) - Edith Wharton


Summer (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate advances of her guardian Mr....
Molly Make-Believe - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Molly Make-Believe - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancee is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends him what she calls a 'ridiculous...
The Money Moon: A Romance - John Jeffery FARNOL


The Money Moon: A Romance - John Jeffery FARNOL
- Author: John Jeffery FARNOL
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Money Moon is a light-hearted romance. Jilted in love, our American millionaire hero, George Bellow, takes a walking tour of the Kent countryside to overcome the “Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been”. Along the way he makes friends with a...
The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas - Thomas Mayne REID


The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah! About him there is something to...
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - Annie Roe CARR


Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - Annie Roe CARR
- Author: Annie Roe CARR
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Action & Adventure
A school girl story about two Illinois teens and the adventures they have with family,friends and the chance to go to a boarding school in Michigan in the early 1920's. (Summary by Linda Andrus)...
His Grace of Osmonde - Frances Hodgson Burnett


His Grace of Osmonde - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
His Grace of Osmonde, being the portions of that nobleman's life omitted in the relation of his Lady's story presented to the world of fashion under the title of 'A Lady of Quality'(Summary by Frances Hodgson Burnett)...
Snow-Blind - Katharine Newlin Burt


Snow-Blind - Katharine Newlin Burt
- Author: Katharine Newlin Burt
- Genre: General Fiction
A bit of a menage-a-quatre in a remote cabin in the wilderness as fugitive Hugh, his younger brother Pete, nursemaid and cook Bella, and now the newly arrived snow-blinded young Sylvie who had been snatched from near death in the snow by the heroic...
The Iron Heel - Jack London


The Iron Heel - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction / *Non-fiction
A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement. (Introduction by Matt Soar)...
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. - Washington Irving


The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous - other tales include "Roscoe", "The Broken Heart", "The Art of Book-making", "A Royal Poet", "The Spectre Bridegroom",...