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Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

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Anthony Trollope


Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…

Jaffery

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William John Locke


The book follows the lives of Hilary, the narrator, and three of his friends whom he met at Cambridge. One soon dies - another (Adrian) writ…

In Brief Authority

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F. Anstey


Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales'…

The Nebuly Coat

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John Meade Falkner


Westray, a young architect, is sent to the town of Cullerne to oversee repairs to the tower of the minster there. He lodges in the town in t…

The Rough Road

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William John Locke


The book tells the story of "Doggie" Trevor, who, having been wrapped in cotton wool since babyhood, becomes a snobbish rich dilet…

The Glory of Clementina Wing

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William John Locke


The book follows the adventures of two main characters - Clementina Wing, a talented artist in her mid 30's with no social graces and Ephrai…

Leonora

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Arnold Bennett


Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…

Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukrai…

The Inner Shrine

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Basil King


At the opening of this story Diane Eveleth returns from a party in Paris to her mother-in-law, who tells her that her husband George Eveleth…

The Astonishing History of Troy Town

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


A humorous story about some of the extraordinary inhabitants of a British seaside town. - Summary by Simon Evers

De Leeuw van Vlaenderen of de Slag der Gulden Sporen

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Hendrik Conscience


Een historische roman die zich afspeelt in Vlaanderen rond de Guldensporenslag in 1302. Vlaanderen is in de handen van de Fransen gevallen, …

Dodo: A Detail of the Day

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E. F. Benson


Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Do…

Where Love Is

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William John Locke


Norma Hardacre is a member of smart London society. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to a penniless artist named Jimmie Padgate. However…

Reinaart de Vos

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Unknowntranslated Byjulius De Geyter and Translated Byjulius De Geyter


Het episch dierdicht "Van den Vos Reynaerde", geschreven in het Middelnederlands in de 13e eeuw, geldt als een hoogtepunt in de Ne…

Helen with the High Hand

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Arnold Bennett


James Ollerenshaw is a middle-aged, wealthy bachelor who lives in Bursley, one of the Five Towns. A chance encounter with Helen, his great s…

The Mountebank

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William John Locke


Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his …

Lady Connie

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Mary Augusta Ward


Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…

The Masquerader (Version 2)

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Katherine Cecil Thurston


In the London fog, two men bump into each other one night. They are immediately unnerved by their exact resemblance to each other. Jack Chil…

The Green Mirror

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Hugh Walpole


Three generations of the Trenchard family, ruled over by the indomitable Mrs Trenchard, live together in comfortable domesticity until Kathe…

Delia Blanchflower

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Mary Augusta Ward


Delia Blanchflower’s father has died, leaving her a considerable inheritance. However, she has become caught up in the militant wing of the …

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