Literature
The Cricket on the Hearth
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Charles Dickens
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious …
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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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…
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children
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Jonathan Swift
This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The chi…
Farewell
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Honoré de Balzac
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…
Joseph Andrews
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Henry Fielding
"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…
Nigger of the Narcissus
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Joseph Conrad
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off…
The Art of Fiction
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Henry James
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
Father Goriot
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Honoré de Balzac
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its …
The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…
The Daughter of the Commandant
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Alexander Pushkin
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore
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Mary Cowden Clarke
This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of c…
Phineas Finn the Irish Member
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Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…
The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
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Jules Verne
The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wa…
The Good Soldier
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Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples.…
The Shadow of the Rope
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E. W. Hornung
Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and publ…
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)
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Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…
The Story of an African Farm
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Olive Schreiner
The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Ka…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I
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James Boswell
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…
Robert Weaver The Godfather Of Can Lit
Robert Weaver The Godfather of Canadian Literature Ideas CBC Radio Monday, January 26, 2009 Alice Munro , Austin Clarke &n…