General Fiction

Framley Parsonage

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Anthony Trollope



Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…

The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett



Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the Englis…

The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

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Stephen Crane



Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its …

Zanoni

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton



Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pis…

The Well-Beloved

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Thomas Hardy



'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand…

The Daughter of the Commandant

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Alexander Pushkin



"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …

Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

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Mary Cowden Clarke



This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of c…

Short Science Fiction Collection 052

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Various



Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

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Jules Verne



The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wa…

The Shadow of the Rope

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E. W. Hornung



Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and publ…

The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)

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Alessandro Manzoni



The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…

The Good Soldier

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Ford Madox Ford



The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples.…

The Bells of San Juan

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Jackson Gregory



Rod Norton is a lawman in a land where bandits and criminals make their own rules. Risking his life for justice and a future with the woman …

Lavender and Old Lace

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Myrtle Reed



"Jane Hathaway and her niece, Ruth Thorne, have never met. Jane invites Ruth for a visit, but leaves before Ruth comes. Ruth agrees to …

The Song of the Lark

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather



Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place supposedly located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in t…

Black Heart and White Heart

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H. Rider Haggard



Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Int…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

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James Boswell



Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…

The Story of an African Farm

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Olive Schreiner



The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Ka…

The Calico Cat (version 2)

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Charles Miner Thompson



The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a…

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