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A Christmas Carol (version 07)

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Charles Dickens


The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…

The Wind in the Willows (version 5)

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Kenneth Grahame


A children's classic, this is the story of Rat and Mole, who have many adventures both on and off their beloved river, with their friends To…

My School Days

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E. Nesbit


A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centre…

Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)

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Blanche Mcmanus


Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her dai…

Notes on Nursing

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Florence Nightingale


Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …

The Water-Babies

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Charles Kingsley


The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though…

The Scarlet Letter (version 2)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Version 2)

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Friedrich Nietzsche


By turns illuminating, infuriating, bewildering, and amusing, Nietzsche's masterwork covers a lot of ground. He rejects most strands of Wes…

The War of the Worlds (Version 3)

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H. G. Wells


No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gu…

Royal Children of English History

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E. Nesbit


From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the thin…

A Guide to Men

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Helen Rowland


A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bla…

To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

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Mary Shelley


Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years…

Love and Freindship

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Jane Austen


Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling…

Black Beauty (version 2)

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Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…

Aunt Crete's Emancipation

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Grace Livingston Hill


Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as…

The Wood Beyond the World

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William Morris


The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the…

Nine Unlikely Tales

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E. Nesbit


Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence …

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