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The Trembling of a Leaf

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W. Somerset Maugham


A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of …

An Ideal Husband (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde


The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…

The Town Traveller

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George Gissing


The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interac…

A viúva Simões

Read by Rachel Moraes


Júlia Lopes de Almeida and Júlia Lopes De Almeida


Ernestina Simões é rica, bonita, ainda jovem e viúva. Com uma filha já moça, ela vive praticamente reclus…

Prodigal Daughters

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Joseph Hocking


A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …

Shirley (version 2)

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Charlotte Brontë


This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represen…

The Coast of Bohemia

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William Dean Howells


William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…

The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

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Charles Weathers Bump


A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

Nana

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Émile Zola


Excerpt from Introduction:"Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it giv…

雁 (Gan)

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Ōgai Mori


語り手と同じ下宿にいた岡田は、無縁坂に住むお玉と、帽を取って挨拶をするようになった。お玉は、高利貸、末造の妾であった。ある日、青大将がお玉が飼っている紅雀を襲った。そこに岡田が通りかかり、蛇を退治してあげる。お玉は岡田と近づきになりたいと思い、末造が来ないと決まった日に、下女を帰…

Elsie Venner

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interr…

The Steel Flea

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Nikolai Leskov


An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tell…

Men Without Women

Read by James Hutchisson


Ernest Hemingway


Hemingway's second collection of short fiction, first published in 1927, including many of his best-known stories, including "Hills Lik…

The Secret Agent (Version 3)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…

Lalka (tom 2)

Read by Piotr Nater


Bolesław Prus


Drugi tom klasycznego dzieła Bolesława Prusa o miłości kupca Stanisława Wokulskiego do młodej arystokratki Izabeli Łęckiej osadzonego w szcz…

Correio da Roça

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Júlia Lopes De Almeida


Maria ficou viúva e os credores levaram a vida de luxo e abastança em que viviam no Rio de Janeiro. E ela e as 4 filhas, educa…

The Landlady

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Everything changed when Ordynov, a secluded young thinker, stepped out of his old lodgings in search of another corner. The ailing landlord …

The Sacred Fount

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Henry James


Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the…

Asphodel

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of…

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