General Fiction
The Sport of the Gods
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. Forced to leave the Sou…
The Shaving of Shagpat
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George Meredith
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of st…
1903 Collection
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Various
This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
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Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Kentucky "Colonel," so much of a favorite with young readers, has reached the age for interest in other people's love a…
Adeline Mowbray
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Amelia Opie
Everybody makes mistakes, and everything has a price. This novel describes, according to its name, the life of Adeline Mowbray, full of ever…
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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Life in the Grey Nunnery was first published in Boston, in 1857 by Edward P. Hood, who was credited as the book's editor. It is likely that …
Christina
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L. G. Moberly
"Christina is a story of two people: Christina, a strong young and poor woman who searches for work and finds more than she bargained f…
Douglas Duane
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Edgar Fawcett
An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love wit…
A Little Book for a Little Cook
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L. P. Hubbard
This charming little book compiles together a number of recipes, set out in an easy to understand manner, along with a poetic story about th…
Northern Trails, Book 2
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William J. Long
The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country, a land of space and silence where it is good to be, away up a…
Paul and Virginia
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly di…
He
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Andrew Lang
This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer)You will not think, therefore, tha…
Beckside Lights
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John Ackworth
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his…
Trains at Work
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Brigham Henry Roberts, Mary Elting, David Lyle Millard and Mary Elting Folsom
This is a wonderful children's book about trains, specifically those exciting steam engines that covered our country in the early 1900's. I…
The Lady's Mile
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …
Flower Stories
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Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
This volume contains stories, poems, and facts about lots of different flowers, intended for teaching children. It is divided into thirteen …
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
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Frances Milton Trollope
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies hi…
The Magic Mountain (Volume Two)
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Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in a luxurious sanatorium hig…
The Fortunes of Philippa
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Angela Brazil
The Fortunes of Philippa is based on the author's mother, Angelica Brazil, who had grown up in Rio de Janeiro and attended an English boardi…
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
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Walter Savage Landor
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…