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Fifty-two stories asking what a person owes a system that was never built for them — a mill town, an empire, a courtroom, an auction block. Manchester's masters stay behind their curtains while fever fills the cellars. A dry gully is named the River of Plenty. Friars ride the shaded upper deck while students crowd below. An ex-convict carries a yellow passport into every doorway in Digne.

MatureMary BartonManchester in the hungry forties: the mills stand quiet, fever fills the cellars, and the masters stay behind their curtains.Complete · 76 chaptersMatureBirds Without a NestYou play Lucia, newly settled with your husband in the white house at Killac, where mountain air was supposed to be the only reason for coming.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureClotelYou are Clotel, days from the auction block where a Richmond estate will sell you alongside your mother and sister.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureContending ForcesYou are Dora Smith, helping your mother settle a new lodger, Sappho Clark, into the sunny room upstairs.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenDona PerfectaYou play Pepe Rey, an engineer riding into a town that calls its dry gully the River of Plenty.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureEl FilibusterismoThe steamer Tabo labours up the Pasig with friars and officials on the shaded upper deck and students crowded below.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenFelix Holt, the RadicalOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureFor the Term of His Natural LifeOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureGerminalA March night on a frozen road, and a sound underground that is not wind.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenHard TimesOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureImperium in ImperioOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureIola LeroyFresh butter means the Union has gained ground.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenJude the ObscureOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureLes MiserablesNineteen years in the galleys are behind you, and a yellow passport ahead of you in every doorway in Digne.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMaggie: A Girl of the StreetsYou are Maggie Johnson, growing up in Rum Alley between a brother who turns every beating into a legend and a mother who drinks through the furniture.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMan and WifeYou are Anne, governess to Blanche Lundie at Windygates, waiting in the summer house for Geoffrey Delamayn to honor a private promise of marriage.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMargret HowthYou are Margret Howth, starting your first day of paid work as a bookkeeper at Dr.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMotherYou play Pelageya Vlasova, who has learned to measure the quiet in her house by the sound of her husband's boots.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMr. Hogarth's WillOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenNicholas NicklebyOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureNoli Me TangereCaptain Tiago's Manila house fills with friars and officials to inspect what seven years in Europe have changed.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenOliver TwistOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureRuthYou play Ruth Hilton, apprentice to a dressmaker, mending Lady Guest's torn flounce in a screened corner of a crowded ball.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureSabAn English traveller loses his guide on the road to Bellavista and asks the nearest rider for directions.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenShirleyYou play Robert Moore, a mill owner riding out with your overseer Joe Scott to defend a wagon of new machinery from men bent on destroying it.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Daughters of DanausOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Garies and Their FriendsYou are Emily Garie, hosting George Winston, once enslaved, back from a North where strangers took him for white until he named where he came from.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Heart of Mid-LothianOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Home and the WorldOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe OctopusOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Odd WomenOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Ragged-Trousered PhilanthropistsYou are Frank Owen, a house painter breaking for dinner with the rest of Rushton's crew in a gutted mansion the men call the Cave.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Sport of the GodsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureUncle Tom's CabinCorn cakes browning at the hearth, two boys wrestling under the table, and the young master of the house down to teach you your letters.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureWynema: A Child of the ForestOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenA Knight of the White CrossWarwick's trumpet sounded below the chateau while Queen Margaret waited to meet the man who had broken Lancaster's power.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCondemned as a NihilistOn the last day of term, you packed at Shrewsbury after learning that your father would send you into the Russian branch of his firm early.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDutch the DiverYou worked over a machinery drawing while Rasp poured half a scuttle of coal onto an already oppressive office fire.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFriends, Though DividedOn a July afternoon in 1642, you sat with Herbert and his young sister Lucy where St Helen's spire rose beyond the fields.Preview · 1 chapterTeenNo Surrender!Netherstock stood between sea and harbour, where your family knew channels, tides, and secluded inlets better than any revenue patrol.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPatience WinsAt sixteen you sat among papers in your three uncles' room and asked what they had learned from repeated visits to Arrowfield.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPhantom FortuneBefore dinner, Lord Denyer's guests whispered that the Indian mail accused Lord Maulevrier of grave misconduct as governor.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSaint Bartholomew's EveCanterbury sheltered a growing Huguenot community, including your mother Lucie and her brother Gaspard, exiles from Poitou.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSunshine BillWilliam Sunnyside grew up among a large family, an apple stall, a wherry, and parents who kept kindness alive when the cash-box was empty.Preview · 1 chapterTeenTemporal PowerA king of a southern realm sat in a marble pavilion facing the sea with state papers waiting unopened on his table.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Boy Who Sailed with BlakeBen hauled in a mackerel line while Lancelot Kerridge held the helm and Dick Harvey kept an oar out to windward.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Prime MinisterFerdinand Lopez wants Sexty Parker's signature on a bill for seven hundred and fifty pounds.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Woodcutter of GutechGottlieb Spena carried a heavy pack through the Black Forest, having left the path by a shortcut and lost the road before sunset.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Young CastellanBen Martlet rubbed oil and sand over a rusted morion while you disputed every sigh about England decaying.Preview · 1 chapterTeenUnder the MendipsJoyce Falconer stood at Fair Acres' white gate, looking toward Wells while her family measured life by hay, stockings, and the next household errand.Preview · 1 chapterTeenVittoriaMorning cleared Monte Motterone above the mist while you climbed with four patriots toward a meeting at the summit.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWith Lee in VirginiaYou found overseer Jonas Pearson preparing to whip eighteen-year-old Dan for delaying an urgent message to the field hands.Preview · 1 chapter

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