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George Griffith - Angel of the Revolution

The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by English writer George Griffith. It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work. It was first published...

Kevin Green 13 hours 58 minutes

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Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

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Charles Watts Whistler - Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Troy, Athens, Rome… each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world. Havelok the Dane probably derives from a folk-tale, orally passed...

Tony Foster 8 hours 56 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Master of Ballantrae

Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His...

Thomas A. Copeland 8 hours 46 minutes

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Jack London - When God Laughs, and Other Stories

This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, to the trials of life and travel on many frontiers, to an allegory about a...

Don W. Jenkins 5 hours 6 minutes

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Jack London - Call of the Wild (version 4)

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 50 minutes

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Jules Verne - Steam House

Jules Verne is back with another action-packed adventure--this time in India with a steam-powered elephant! Maucler, Captain Hood, Banks, and Colonel Munro set out for a pleasure trip across India in their train...

J. E. Vorble and 10 more 11 hours 48 minutes

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Arthur M. Winfield - Rover Boys Out West

Despite the title, the Rover Brothers spend several chapters — over half the book — back East, against arch-nemeses Josiah Crabtree and the Baxter family. Formulaic fun was dated even by the 1940's when Orson Welles...

Bellona Times 5 hours 26 minutes

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Harry Bates - Astounding Stories 14, February 1931

This issue includes «Werewolves of War» by D. W. Hall, «The Tentacles from Below» by Anthony Gilmore, «The Black Lamp» by Captain S. P. Meek, «Phalanxes of Atlans» by F. V. W. Mason, and contues with «The Pirate...

Bill Boerst 7 hours 56 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Jack London - Sea Wolf - Version 2

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic, survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea...

Nick Bulka 11 hours 53 minutes

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R. M. Ballantyne - Island Queen

The story of Dominic, Otto and Pauline Rigonda, three siblings who are blown onto an island after being shipwrecked, and are later joined by the immigrant passengers and crew of a ship that is wrecked on the same...

Rachel and 3 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Charles Willard Diffin - Astounding Stories 13, January 1931

This issue contains «The Dark Side of Antri» by Sewell Peaslea Wright, «The Sunken Empire» by H. Thompson Rich, «The Gate to Xoran» by Hal K. Wells, «The Eye of Allah» by C. D. Willard, «The Fifth-Dimension Catapult»...

Bill Boerst 7 hours 52 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Jack London - Daughter of the Snows

In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, «a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie,» who heads to the Yukon gold fields after creating a stir in her hometown...

Don W. Jenkins 8 hours 34 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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