My Standard Ebooks Productions
001 R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island (1857) | Three shipwrecked youths encounter delights and dangers as they attempt to escape their uninhabited tropical island paradise. [Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction]
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002 Anthony Trollope, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874) | The imperious nature of a young farmer arouses sharp hostilities from his neighbors as Christmas approaches. [Australia -- Fiction]
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003 Anthony Trollope, Cousin Henry (1879) | Indecision over the discovery of a hidden will drives a rejected heir to the edge of madness. [Inheritance and succession -- Fiction]
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004 Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her? (1864–1865) | A young woman is torn between marrying a man she loves and respects, and a man she once loved and now fears. [London (England) -- Fiction]
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005 Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn (1869) | A young Irishman attempts to establish himself as a member of Parliament while finding his way in high society. [London (England) -- Fiction]
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006 Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds (1873) | A young widow wreaks havoc as she attempts to maintain possession of a valuable diamond necklace from her late husband’s estate. [Satire]
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007 Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux (1874) | A young Irishman returns to parliamentary life only to encounter obstacles which threaten to bring his aspirations to an untimely end. [London (England) -- Fiction]
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008 Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister (1876) | The Duke of Omnium leads a coalition government while doubting his capacity to do so. [London (England) -- Fiction]
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009 Anthony Trollope, The Duke’s Children (1880) | The widowed Duke of Omnium struggles to come to terms with the choices of his children as they attain adulthood. [London (England) -- Fiction]
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010 Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae (1889) | The relationship of two noble brothers is blighted by hostility and vengeance in Jacobite Scotland. [Historical fiction]
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011 Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) | A young American woman travelling through Europe excites both admiration and intrigue. [Inheritance and succession -- Fiction]
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012 J. S. Fletcher, The Talleyrand Maxim (1920) | The estate of a deceased magnate falls prey to an unscrupulous administrator. [Detective and mystery stories]
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013 George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (1871) | A young boy’s life is transformed by his visit to the country at the back of the north wind. [Fairy tales]
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014 Anthony Trollope, Short Fiction (1861–1882) | A collection of Anthony Trollope’s short stories, ordered by date of first publication. [Manners and customs -- Fiction]
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015 Mark Rutherford, The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane (1887) | Two generations experience the convulsions of politics and religion in early nineteenth century England. [England -- Fiction]
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016 William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond (1852) | A young nobleman of obscure birth sacrifices his own interests to uphold the honor of his patrons’ family. [Historical fiction]
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017 Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1855) | A young woman faces grave personal challenges when her family moves from a rural parish in the New Forest to the industrial North of England. [Didactic fiction]
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018 Anthony Trollope, The Claverings (1866–1867) | An aspirational young man must decide between his wealthy and widowed first love, and his affianced and honest second. [Inheritance and succession -- Fiction]
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019 R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone (1869) | A young yeoman farmer falls in love with a beautiful girl who belongs to the outlaw clan which killed his father. [Historical fiction]
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020 Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right (1869) | An older lothario interferes in the lives of a young married couple, driving them apart as each maintains their own innocence. [England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction]
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021 Margaret Oliphant, The Rector and The Doctor’s Family (1861) | A middle-aged minister and a young doctor experience changes and challenges in a small English town. [Fiction]
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022 Margaret Oliphant, Salem Chapel (1863) | A young dissenting minister experiences challenges to his pastorate while going through personal crises. [Clergy -- England -- Fiction]
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023 Margaret Oliphant, The Perpetual Curate (1864) | Incidents in a small town threaten to ruin the reputation of a young clergyman. [England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction]
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024 Margaret Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks (1866) | A young woman sets out to revolutionize the moribund social life of a small English town. [Love stories]
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025 Margaret Oliphant, Phoebe, Junior (1876) | The friendship between the daughters of a dissenting minister and an Anglican clergyman tests boundaries of class and wealth. [England -- Fiction]
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026 Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) | A British Creole woman provides medical assistance during the Crimean War after her travels around Panama. [Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881 -- Travel -- Ukraine -- Crimea]
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027 Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm (1862) | A middle-aged widow is taken to court over her husband’s will, twenty years after his death. [Inheritance and succession -- Fiction]
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Personal Ebook Projects
These have been produced using the Standard Ebooks toolset and processes, but are not part of the SE corpus.
d01 Margaret Oliphant, (1861) | An attorney is forced to act upon the instructions of an unusual will. [Inheritance and succession -- Fiction]
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d02 J. W. Mackail, (1907) | A brief account of William Morris’s life and art, especially in its Oxford connections. [Morris, William, 1834-1896]
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The Executor, by Margaret Oliphant (1861)
The small town of Carlingford is shocked by the terms of the will read on the demise of old Mrs. Thomson, none more than the lawyer named as the will’s executor, John Brown. One surprise is the wealth of her estate, and the other is that she does not leave anything to her next-of-kin in the town who had been quietly counting on an inheritance.
As the story unfolds of John Brown’s efforts to discharge his duties appropriately, readers are introduced to the town and a few of its leading citizens: the Rector, and the young Dr. Rider in particular. Carlingford was to become the setting for a series of novels that are among Margaret Oliphant’s most successful works. Threads of plots emerging from this novella became the basis for the Chronicles which followed.
William Morris and His Circle, by J. W. Mackail (1907)
William Morris (1834–1896) had significant associations with Oxford. This lecture, by one of Morris’s early biographers, sets his artistic formation and subsequent vision in the context of his social connections, especially those forged in his Oxford years.
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