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Complete texts

The links will take you to an author profile, an introduction to the book or a list of available e-texts by that author. There will then be a link to the complete text which you can read online or download free of charge. For longer texts there is often a separate extract so that you can read a sample of the work.

Ainsworth, William Harrison

Boscobel or, the Royal Oak (1872)

Barclay, Florence L.

Shorter works (1931)

The white ladies of Worcester (1917)

Baring-Gould, Sabine

Bladys of the Stewponey (1897)

The Frobishers (1901)

Bennett, Arnold

Anna of the five towns (1902)

Clayhanger (1910)

Helen with the high hand (1910)

Imperial palace (1930)

Lord Raingo (1926)

Riceyman steps (1923)

Selected short stories.

Broughton, Rhoda

A beginner (1893)

A waif's progress (1905)

Cometh up as a flower (1867)

Second thoughts (1880)

Twilight stories (1872, with this title from 1879)

Buchanan, Robert

God and the man (1881)

Shadow of the sword (1876)

Burbury, E.J.

The Grammar school boys (1854)

Butler, Samuel

Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss Savage (1919)

Sonnets on Miss Savage (1919)

Cholmondeley, Mary

Diana Tempest (1893)

Moth and rust (1902)

Notwithstanding (1913)

Prisoners (1906)

Coke, Desmond

The bending of a twig (1906)

The worse house at Sherborough (1913)

Craik, Dinah

Agatha's husband (1853)

A life for a life (1859)

The Ogilvies (1849)

Day, Thomas

The History of Sandford and Merton (1860)

Eliot, George

Silas Marner (1861)

Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft

The wisdom of folly (1910)

Harrison, F. Bayford

The Battlefield treasure.

Hazlitt, William

Spirit of the age (1825)

Hutton, Catherine

The miser married (1813)

Hutton, William

The Barbers (1793)

Edgar and Elfrida (1793)

The life of William Hutton (1816)

Poems; chiefly tales (1804)

Kettle, Rosa

The Carding-mill Valley.

Kingsley, Henry

Stretton (1869)

Landor, Walter Savage

Selected imaginary conversations.

Selected letters.

Selected poetry.

Lloyd, Charles

Selected poetry (1819)

Moultrie, John

Selected poetry (1876)

Murray, David Christie

Aunt Rachel (1886)

In direst peril (1894)

Joseph's coat (1894)

Parkes, Bessie Rayner

Poems.

Shenstone, William

Elegies.

Inscriptions.

Levities; or, pieces of humour.

Moral pieces.

Odes.

Songs and ballads.

Sherwood, Mary Martha

The history of Lucy Clare.

The history of Susan Gray.

The lady of the manor.

Martin Crook and the lost purse.

Master Alfred Seymour.

The old woman's tale.

The potter's common.

The story of Charles Lorraine's life.

The story of little Henry and his bearer Boosy. [Link to complete text, 73Kb]

Troublesome Tom Page.

Waste not, want not.

Shorthouse, J.H.

Little schoolmaster Mark (1883)

A teacher of the violin and other stories (1888)

Stretton, Hesba

Alone in London.

Bede's charity.

Brought home.

Carola.

Children of Cloverley (1865)

The doctor's dilemma.

Fern's hollow (1864)

Friends till death.

Hester Morley's promise (1899)

In prison and out (1880)

Jessica's first prayer (1867)

Little Meg's children (1868)

No place like home.

Storm of life.

A thorny path.

Under the old roof.

Symonds, W.S

Hanley Castle (1883)

Malvern Chase (1881)

Ward, Mary Augusta

Robert Elsmere (1888)

Webb, Mary

Armour wherein he trusted (1929)

The golden arrow (1916)

Gone to earth (1917)

The house in Dormer Forest (1920)

Precious bane (1924)

Selected short stories (1917)

Seven for a secret (1922)

The Spring of joy: nature essays (1917)

The Spring of joy: poems (1917)

Weyman, Stanley

The man in black (1894)

Wood, Mrs. Henry

Anne Hereford (1868)

Bessy Rane (1870)

The Channings (1862)

Johnny Ludlow: First series (a selection).

Johnny Ludlow: Second series (a selection).

Johnny Ludlow: Third series (a selection).

Johnny Ludlow: Fourth Series (a selection).

Johnny Ludlow: Fifth series (a selection).

Johnny Ludlow: Sixth series (a selection).

Mrs Halliburton's troubles (1862)

Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863)

Short stories (a selection) (1853)

Worboise, Emma Jane

Chrystabel (1873)

Husbands and wives (1873)

Overdale (1869)

Thornycroft Hall (1864)

A woman's patience (1879)

Wycherley, William

The gentleman dancing-master (1673)

Love in a wood (1672)

The plain dealer (1674)



Samples and extracts

These links will take you directly to a sample or extract from works that are not available as complete texts. They can be read online or downloaded free of charge.

Bage, Robert

Short stories.

Bibby, Bob

Be a falling leaf. Chapter 1.

Bird on the wing. Chapter 1.

The liquidator.Chapter 1.

Butler, Samuel

The way of all flesh. Chapter 30.

Corelli, Marie

God's good man. Chapter 1.

A romance of two worlds. Chapter 1.

The secret power. Chapter 1.

Craik, Dinah

John Halifax, Gentleman Chapter 1.

Cutler, Judith

Will power Chapter 1.

Davis, Susan

The worry dolls. Complete text.

Darwin, Charles

Recollections of the development of my mind and character. Extract

Done, Adrian

Selected poetry of Adrian Done.

Doug, Roshan

Selected poetry of Roshan Doug. Selection

Eliot, George

Middlemarch. Prelude and Chapter 1.

The sad fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton. Chapter 1.

Fletcher, Simon

Selected poetry of Simon Fletcher.

Jago, Richard

Selected poetry of Richard Jago.

Jerome, Jerome K.

On memory. Essay.

Three men in a boat. Extract.

Johnson, Samuel

The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Chapters 1 and 2.

Lawrence, D.H.

St. Mawr. Extract.

Moultrie, Gerald

Selected poetry of Gerald Moultrie.

Owen, Wilfred

Selected poetry of Wilfred Owen.

Ward, Mary Augusta

A writer's recollections. Selection.

Webster, Len

Hell-riders and other stories. Extract.

The turban-wallah: a tale of Little India. Extract.

Weyman, Stanley John

Under the red robe. Chapter 1.



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