Literature

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…

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 Art of Fiction

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Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Phineas Finn the Irish Member

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Anthony Trollope


Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…

Father Goriot

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Honoré de Balzac


One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …

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 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 …

Joseph Andrews

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Henry Fielding


"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…

Main Street

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Sinclair Lewis


Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

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 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…

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…

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…

Nostromo

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Joseph Conrad


Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …

Jolanthes Hochzeit

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Hermann Sudermann


»Jolanthes Hochzeit« ist eine Novelle des ostpreußischen Schriftstellers und Bühnenautors Hermann Sudermann.Der schon…

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,…

Love and Friendship

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Emily Brontë


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 17, 201…

The Wide, Wide World

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Susan Warner


"How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react wh…

The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is…

Novelle per un anno, vol. 02: La Vita Nuda

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Luigi Pirandello


Novelle per un anno è una raccolta di 241 novelle scritte da Luigi Pirandello. Originariamente sono state pubblicate sul Corriere del…

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