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Miss Marjoribanks

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Margaret O. Oliphant


One of the so-called "Chronicles of Carlingford", of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 …

Rain (Version 2)

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W. Somerset Maugham


Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction b…

The Mother's Recompense

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Edith Wharton


Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …

Lover or Friend

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Rosa Nouchette Carey


An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…

Scarhaven Keep

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J. S. Fletcher


The northern English sea coast provides a compelling backdrop for this genre of writing; a mysterious disappearance, a love interest, and pl…

The Patrician

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John Galsworthy


The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …

Lady Susan

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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 …

Kilmeny of the Orchard (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


A short and sweet romance by the author of "Anne of Green Gables", Kilmeny of the Orchard is a story about a schoolteacher (Eric) …

The White People

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


A young girl living in remote Scotland discovers she has a unique gift for seeing what others cannot. This ultimately hopeful and positive s…

Theo

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


It's described as "A SPRIGHTLY LOVE STORY" and it is written by F. H. Burnett, "one of the most charming among American write…

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…

Their Yesterdays

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Harold Bell Wright


The story of a man and a woman, as they experience The Thirteen Truly Great Things of Life: Dreams, Occupation, Knowledge, Ignorance, Religi…

The Shadow of a Sin (Dramatic reading)

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Charlotte M. Brame and Charlotte M Brame


A story of a young woman in love and the sacrifices she makes in order to save a man's life when he is accused of murder. Has she gone too f…

Spun from Fact

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Pansy


As the title suggests, this story is from real events. As the author explains in the last chapter, all of the events are true; the conversat…

Stories by English Authors: London

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F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

Story Hour Readers: Third Year

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Ida Coe and Ida Coeandalice Christie Dillon


Short and sweet stories for children from the 19th century. The stories were compiled by two New York City teachers and were thought appropr…

Olive

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik


Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's 1850 novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deform…

The Story of Wool

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Sara Ware Bassett


Mr. Clark and Donald spend a year out west to the Crescent Ranch in Idaho learning about raising sheep. (summary by David O)

The Type-Writer Girl

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Grant Allen


(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …

True Stories of Girl Heroines

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Evelyn Everett-Green


Twenty short stories retelling the heroic deeds of teenaged girls and young women from history. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle

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