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Emma: A Fragment of a Story
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Charlotte Brontë
Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daug…
Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
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Angelina Emily Grimké
This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.
Lady Susan (version 2)
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
Agnes Grey
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Anne Brontë
The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to ca…
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…
At the Gate of Samaria
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William John Locke
The novel is set in the 1890’s. Clytie Davenant is a headstrong young woman who escapes from the stultifying country life of her family to m…
The Grey Lady
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Henry Seton Merriman
A tale of romance, greed, blackmail, secrets, Spain and ships. Loss and intrigue too as we follow twin brothers along their life paths. Sum…
What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading)
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Susan Coolidge
Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Ka…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Writing Wrongly
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Thomas Corfield
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…
Audrey Craven
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May Sinclair
In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undes…
The Chief Legatee
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Anna Katharine Green
"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and…
The Visits of Elizabeth
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Elinor Glyn
Elizabeth is a young and naive debutante who is travelling around England and France fom one house party to the next, visiting friends and f…
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…
Petticoat Government, Volume 3
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Frances Milton Trollope
The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.
My First Book
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Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
Heroines of Fiction
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William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Awkward Age
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Henry James
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…
Sonette nach dem Portugiesischen, übertragen durch Rainer Maria Rilke
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning schrieb diese Sonette für ihren Mann. Dieser gab sie dann zur Veröffentlichung. In seiner Übersetz…
Victorian Literature
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Clement Shorter
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…