Literary Fiction
Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2)
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Dorothy Richardson
"Backwater" is the second volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson con…
Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles
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Godfrey Sweven
John Macmillan Brown was born in New Zealand and a University professor, wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. An excerpt from the Int…
The Sylph
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgianna Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire was one of the leading ladies of her time. There for, her novel, which contains many autobiograp…
Silas Marner (Version 3)
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George Eliot
Silas Marner is a hermit-style weaver who keeps to himself and is eyed with suspicion by those in the nearby town of Raveloe. Dispelled from…
Antic Hay
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Aldous Huxley
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…
To the Lighthouse (Version 3)
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Virginia Woolf
In three parts, this modern classic explores the life of an English family, the Ramsays, at their Scottish summer house both before and afte…
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by "Q", the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur …
The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2
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Katherine Mansfield
The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…
The Beast in the Jungle (version 2)
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Henry James
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral e…
La bolsa de huesos
Read by Victor Villarraza
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg
La bolsa de huesos es una novela policíaca del escritor argentino Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (Buenos Aires, 27 de junio de 1852 – ib&i…
Vignettes of San Francisco
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Almira Bailey
A collection of observations and stories about San Franciscan life - the people, the buildings, the parks, the food, the street-cars, the ba…
The Prelude To Adventure
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Hugh Walpole
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…
Mr. Waddington of Wyck
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May Sinclair
May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way thro…
The Master's Violin
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Myrtle Reed
Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town of Pennsylvania, East La…
Een Kerstlied in Proza (A Christmas Carol)
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Charles Dickens
'A Christmas Carol' is een Victoriaanse allegorie over een oude en verbitterde vrek, Ebenezer Scrooge, die in de nacht voor Kerstmis een aan…
Het Verlaten Huis
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Verhaal over een zeer langdurig en vooral kostbaar juridisch proces, dat uiteindelijk toch tot een einde komt. In schril contrast met de nob…
La Lecture, tome 2
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Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
The Immortal Moment
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May Sinclair
This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist – famous in Britain and the US af…
'Twixt Land and Sea
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Joseph Conrad
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…
Don Quixote (Complete, Ormsby Translation)
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
It is a curious paradox that while the two volumes of Don Quixote have been described as the "best novel of all time" and the &quo…