Literary Fiction

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 11

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Various


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2)

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Dorothy Richardson


"Backwater" is the second volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson con…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny

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Alexandre Dumas


This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…

Antic Hay

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Aldous Huxley


The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…

Lover or Friend

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Rosa Nouchette Carey


An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…

Lost Diaries

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Maurice Baring


Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical…

The Sylph

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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire


Georgianna Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire was one of the leading ladies of her time. There for, her novel, which contains many autobiograp…

The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…

All the Sad Young Men

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


A collection of short stories featuring a suite of wealthy protagonists navigating the perceived hardships of 1920s society. The themes cent…

Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles

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Godfrey Sweven


John Macmillan Brown was born in New Zealand and a University professor, wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. An excerpt from the Int…

Steppenwolf

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Hermann Hesse


This controversial literary classic paints the portrait of a man who perceives himself to live in two worlds, that of the idealist, cowed an…

Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by "Q", the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur …

The Shooting Party

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Anton Chekhov


"The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman…

Vignettes of San Francisco

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Almira Bailey


A collection of observations and stories about San Franciscan life - the people, the buildings, the parks, the food, the street-cars, the ba…

The Beast in the Jungle (version 2)

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Henry James


One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral e…

Silas Marner (Version 3)

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George Eliot


Silas Marner is a hermit-style weaver who keeps to himself and is eyed with suspicion by those in the nearby town of Raveloe. Dispelled from…

Whose Body? (Version 3 - dramatic reading)

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Dorothy L. Sayers


In Dorothy Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, our brilliant and eccentric hero must solve the case of the murder of Sir Reuben Levy - th…

Mr. Waddington of Wyck

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May Sinclair


May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way thro…

Een Kerstlied in Proza (A Christmas Carol)

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Charles Dickens


'A Christmas Carol' is een Victoriaanse allegorie over een oude en verbitterde vrek, Ebenezer Scrooge, die in de nacht voor Kerstmis een aan…

The Master's Violin

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Myrtle Reed


Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town of Pennsylvania, East La…

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