Literary Fiction
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 …
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…
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"…
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
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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…
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 …
Steppenwolf
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Hermann Hesse
This controversial literary classic paints the portrait of a man who perceives himself to live in two worlds, that of the idealist, cowed an…
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…
A Christmas Carol (Version 14)
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob …
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…
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…
Weird Tales, Volume 2
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical perio…
To the Lighthouse (Version 2)
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel explores the lives and thoughts of the Ramsays and their guests at the family's summer home on the …
The Zeit-Geist
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Lily Dougall
"When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subjec…
The Dreamer of Dreams
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Marie Of Romania Alexandra Victoria
Eric, artist for the king, has created a marvelous painting of a royal wedding. It is finished except for the face of the queen, which appea…
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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, …