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Workhouse Characters

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Margaret Nevinson and Margaret Nevinson


In 1904, Margaret Nevinson, a respectable lady and active suffragette, joined the board of guardians in Hampstead Heath. The guardians had r…

The Able McLaughlins

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Margaret Wilson


The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as "Little House on th…

The Sworn Brothers, A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland

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Gunnar Gunnarsson


This is the story of the close but sometimes contentious relationship of two young Icelandic kinsman who elect to undergo the solemn ceremon…

The Loves of Great Composers

Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)


Gustav Kobbé


Gustav Kobbe was a German/US music critic who worked at the time of Liszt and Wagner in particular, and was clearly in the Wagnerian rather …

Visions and Revisions

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John Cowper Powys


Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique…

The Portion of Labor

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


This is the story of Ellen Brewster, pretty little daughter of shoe-mill workers in a Northeastern US town of the late 19th century. After t…

The Complete Works of George Savile, first Marquess of Halifax, with an Introdu…

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George Savile Marquis Of Halifax


George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (11 November 1633 – 5 April 1695) was an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the Hou…

Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906

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Max Baginski, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Sadakichi Hartmann, Peter Kropotkin and Friedrich Nietzsche


"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 14

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Various


This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné (Version 2)

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Victor Hugo


Roman à thèse.Plaidoyer politique pour l’abolition de la peine de mort.Forme de l’ouvrage : Journal tenu par un condamné…

The Crock of Gold

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James Stephens


This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adu…

The Road To Mandalay

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Bithia Mary Croker


Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British…

The Imperialist

Read by Bruce Pirie


Mrs. Everard Cotes and Sara Jeannette Duncan


“The Imperialist,” a novel by Sara Jeannette Duncan, published in 1904, is a portrait of life in small-town Ontario at the beginning of the …

With Her in Ourland

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodic…

Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey

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Washington Irving


Although this book may not have the immediately recognizable title of, say, “Rip Van Winkle” or “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this book deserve…

It Is Never Too Late to Mend

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Charles Reade


A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. Wi…

Lebensgeschichte der Erde

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Willy Pastor


Willy Pastor versteht die Umwelt (Erde, Sonnensystem, Universum) als eigenständigen Organismus. Am Beispiel der Erde grenzt er sich von…

The Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2)

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W. S. Gilbert


In the town of Titipu, flirting is punishable by death on the command of the Mikado himself! But what happens when the Lord High Executioner…

Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 2

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François-René de Chateaubriand


Suite des Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, deuxième partie. Après la jeunesse, sa famille, les évènements ré…

Sketches by Boz, version 2

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Charles Dickens


A collection of early writings of Charles Dickens under his early pseudonym, "Boz." They first appeared in various publications f…

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