Ruth Golding
Faces and Places
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Sir Henry W. Lucy
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, wh…
Women in Love
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D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…
The Seven Poor Travellers
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Charles Dickens
One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter r…
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
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Rees Howell Gronow
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century P…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flat…
A House to Let
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Charles Dickens
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…
Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream
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John Kendrick Bangs
From Alice in Blunderland: "Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--" "Mercy…
The Magic World
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E. Nesbit
Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of sto…
The History of London
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Walter Besant
Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth …
Wuthering Heights (Version 2)
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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet…
Birds in the Calendar
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Frederick G. Aflalo
Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This c…
The Magic City
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E. Nesbit
Philip and Lucy discover that the city Philip has built using toys, books and household objects, has come alive. This is the account of thei…
Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01
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Various
This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
After London, or Wild England
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Richard Jefferies
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has …
In Kent with Charles Dickens
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Thomas Frost
By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…
Tea-table Talk
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Jerome K. Jerome
As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glitte…
The Woman Who Did
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Grant Allen
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…
Mental Efficiency
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Arnold Bennett
In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life…
Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces
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Thomas W. Hanshew
Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but t…
Told after Supper
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Jerome K. Jerome
It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of…
How to Sing (Meine Gesangskunst)
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Lilli Lehmann
Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility. She was also a voice teacher.She wrote…
The British Barbarians
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Grant Allen
After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and …
The Story of Electricity
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John Munro
In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service …
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor
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Thomas W. Hanshew
Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance o…
Merry Clappum Junction
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Arnold Kennedy
This is a jolly little book about a little boy, a dog, a train and a house. But not an ordinary train, oh no, and not an ordinary house eith…
East by West, Vol. 1
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Sir Henry W. Lucy
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during …
The Wonderful Garden
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E. Nesbit
Do you believe in magic? Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's hou…
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A collection of twelve short stories featuring Conan Doyle's legendary detective, originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine …
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame
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Thomas W. Hanshew
Another full-length mystery story featuring Hamilton Cleek, whom we met first in Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces. This time, Cleek investi…
The Fearsome Island
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Albert Kinross
No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipw…
The Diary of a Dead Officer
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Arthur Graeme West
Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most …
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
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John Leighton
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …
The Chimes
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Charles Dickens
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, publ…
The Riddle Ring
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Justin Mccarthy
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a vi…
East by West, Vol. 2
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Sir Henry W. Lucy
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883…
The Feast of St. Friend
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Arnold Bennett
In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's w…
The Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Pl…
The Speaking Voice
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Katherine Jewell Everts
From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training w…
Cleek of Scotland Yard
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Thomas W. Hanshew
Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he?Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, …
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing
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Arnold Bennett
Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, …
The Human Machine
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Arnold Bennett
Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…
The World's Lumber Room
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Selina Gaye
If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for …
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemis…
The Westminster Alice
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Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World
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Castello Newton Holford
Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed…
Utopia (Robinson translation)
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Thomas More
Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: writ…
Underground Man
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Gabriel Tarde
This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th centu…
The Comic English Grammar
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Percival Leigh
This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that…
Blottentots and How to Make Them
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John Prosper Carmel
This is very short, but it is a book with lots of pictures, and it will be even better if you can look at the pictures in the book at http:/…
The Art of Money Getting (version 2)
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P. T. Barnum
Although Barnum considered himself primarily a showman and his main goal was to put money in his own pocket, this little book, subtitled Gol…
An Iron Will
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Orison Swett Marden
Orison Swett Marden was well-known at the turn of the 20th century for his inspirational and spiritual books of self-help. This one deals wi…
Ruby Wedding Collection
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Various
This collection comprises short stories, poems, a little bit of history and a little bit of ornithology, all with ruby connections. The read…
The World of Sound
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Sir William Henry Bragg
The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institu…
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse
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Various
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be desc…
The Prophet (version 5)
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Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…