Literature
Victory
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Joseph Conrad
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific…
The Longest Journey
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E. M. Forster
Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical compa…
The Trumpet-Major
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Thomas Hardy
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…
In the Cage
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Henry James
In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She d…
Irish Idylls
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Jane Barlow
Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbeliev…
Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication o…
Robert Browning
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G. K. Chesterton
There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of…
The Bible in Its Making
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Mildred Duff
One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the …
The Reign of King Edward the Third
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William Shakespeare
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Laurence Sterne
This is volume 3 of 4.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne.…
The Treasure
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
The Custom of the Country
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…
Deephaven
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Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remar…
The Heir of Redclyffe
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) was the first of Charlotte M. Yonge's bestselling romantic novels. Its religious tone derives from the High Chu…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Laurence Sterne
This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne…
Felix Holt, The Radical
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George Eliot
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
Samuel the Seeker
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Upton Sinclair
What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing …
The Lusiads
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Luís Vaz de Camões
The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tal…
Areopagitica
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John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
Olive
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's 1850 novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deform…