Cori Samuel
The Water-Babies
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Charles Kingsley
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though…
Love and Freindship
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Jane Austen
Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling…
Tender Buttons
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Gertrude Stein
"The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the m…
Nine Unlikely Tales
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E. Nesbit
Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence …
Mathilda
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Mary Shelley
The finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father's incestuous love for his daughter and its conseq…
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
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Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years…
The Wood Beyond the World
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William Morris
The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the…
The Moving Picture Girls
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Laura Lee Hope
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like M…
Black Beauty (version 2)
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Anna Sewell
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…
Royal Children of English History
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E. Nesbit
From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the thin…
A Guide to Men
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Helen Rowland
A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bla…
Notes on Nursing
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Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …
My School Days
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E. Nesbit
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…
The Story of a Candy Rabbit
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Laura Lee Hope
The Candy Rabbit wakes up one morning to find his Destiny has arrived: he is part of a wonderful Easter display at the toy shop in which he …
Living Alone
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Stella Benson
This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real bo…
Wings and the Child
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E. Nesbit
"When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys a…
The Wind in the Willows (version 5)
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Kenneth Grahame
A children's classic, this is the story of Rat and Mole, who have many adventures both on and off their beloved river, with their friends To…
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Mary Seacole
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…
Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)
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Blanche Mcmanus
Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her dai…
A Christmas Carol (version 07)
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Charles Dickens
The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…
The Scarlet Letter (version 2)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …
Aunt Crete's Emancipation
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Grace Livingston Hill
Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as…
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)
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Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centre…
The Soul of London
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Ford Madox Ford
'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…
The War of the Worlds (Version 3)
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H. G. Wells
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gu…
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Version 2)
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Friedrich Nietzsche
By turns illuminating, infuriating, bewildering, and amusing, Nietzsche's masterwork covers a lot of ground. He rejects most strands of Wes…
To The Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…
Orlando, A Biography
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Virginia Woolf
A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…
A Room of One's Own
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Virginia Woolf
This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…