Literary Fiction

Martin Chuzzlewit (Version 3)

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Charles Dickens



Dickens portrayal of selfishness, in this case in the Chuzzlewit family. Old Martin has a great fortune, and everyone wants in on it, espec…

The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Version 2)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky



In this classic novella, the life of a drab office clerk named Golyadkin begins to be haunted by his "doppelgänger," a man id…

The Black Monk

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Anton Chekhov



Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black m…

The Untempered Wind

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Joanna E. Wood



Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the …

Some Do Not...

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Ford Madox Ford



Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real h…

Taking the Bastile

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Alexandre Dumas



Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to …

If All These Young Men

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Florence Roma Muir Wilson



Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, "If All These Young Men" is a character study of a group of young 20-somethi…

The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

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Eva March Tappan



This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …

Hieroglyphic Tales

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Horace Walpole



Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…

Within a Budding Grove

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Marcel Proust



"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" (bowdlerized by Scottish translator Scott Moncrieff as "Within a Budding Grove"…

The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns

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Arnold Bennett



The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five…

Armand Durand

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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon



Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks t…

A Lost Lady (Verson 2)

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather



Charismatic Marian Forrester, the wife of a railroad pioneer, captures the heart of every person she meets. Niel Herbert is no exception. He…

A Woman of Genius

Read by Amy Dunkleberger


Mary Hunter Austin



In this 1912 novel, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) draws inspiration from her own life to tell the story of a gifted woman caught between he…

Mrs. Warren's Daughter

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Sir Harry Johnston



Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play,…

Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2)

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Dorothy Richardson



"Pointed Roofs" is the first volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson …

The Outcast

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For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood…

The House of Mystery

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Richard Marsh



The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…

The Great Gatsby (version 4)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald



The Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The …

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1

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Margaret O. Oliphant



Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…

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