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William Le Queux - Eye For An Eye

Frank Urwin and Richard Cleugh are two bachelor journalists sharing a flat in London. One evening while chatting, Urwin receives a telegram from a police acquaintance to come to the local police station at once. Urwin...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 25 minutes

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465

Jack London - Stories of Ships and the Sea

5 Exciting short stories by one of Americas best story tellers (Summary by William Tomcho)

William Tomcho 1 hour 31 minutes

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Max Brand - Riders of the Silences

The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 16 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frank Gee Patchin - Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali

Yee-Haww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time the boys are in the desert of Nevada, discovering the beauty and perils in 100 degree heat. It should be another thrilling ride that Professor Zepplin has...

Richard Kilmer and 6 more 5 hours 10 minutes The Pony Rider Boys series

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414

Mary Hallock Foote - In Exile and Other Stories

Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the...

David Wales 5 hours 36 minutes

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Ray Cummings - Phantoms of Reality

Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension. (Summary by Ray Cummings)

Richard Kilmer 2 hours 4 minutes

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G. A. Henty - Wulf the Saxon

Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wulf, a young, but extremely capable Saxon Thane. Wulf with his friends and...

Peter John Keeble 12 hours 12 minutes

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Guy Morton - Rangy Pete

Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of the Azure Hills). In this one, the Gary Cooper-esque title character, Rangy...

Grant Hurlock 9 hours 40 minutes

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432

Robert Barr - In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories

Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific...

David Wales 6 hours 37 minutes

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Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

The story begins when Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her Aunt Polly, a strict and dutiful middle aged woman. Pollyanna immediately begins to brighten up everyone's life by the «Glad Game.» Trying to...

6 hours 7 minutes

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Zane Grey - Rainbow Trail

The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The...

Richard Kilmer 11 hours 13 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Almayer's Folly (version 2)

Almayer’s Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. Kaspar Almayer is a white European. He agrees to marry a native Malayan captured by Captain Tom Lingard,...

Tom Weiss 6 hours 16 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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