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The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)

Read by Tom Denholm

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…

Adam Bede (version 2)

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George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…

The Cloister and the Hearth

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Charles Reade

'The Cloister and the Hearth', by Charles Reade, was published in 1861. It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe,…

The House by the Medlar Tree

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Giovanni Verga

In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nut…

After the Divorce

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Grazia Deledda

Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their exten…

Chapter III. Habsburg and Valois (II.) by Stanley Leathes (part 4)

In The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 02, The Reformation

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Various

The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

Chapter XII. Tuscany and Savoy by E. Armstrong (part 1)

In The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 03, The Wars of Religion

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Various

The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…