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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (Version 4)

This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a room at his inn and later dies. The map spreads its ill luck to all who know...

Mark F. Smith 7 hours 34 minutes

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Bret Harte - Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories

A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. (Summary by Nick Bulka)

Nick Bulka 4 hours 48 minutes

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B. L. Farjeon - House of the White Shadows

Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a...

Roger Melin 16 hours 47 minutes

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George W. Ogden - Trail's End

When an agriculture professor wanders into a wicked Kansas cowtown in order to experiment raising wheat, both the professor and the town get more than they bargain for. A wild and wooly Western. (Summary by Jeff...

Jeff Chesnut and 1 more 9 hours 12 minutes

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Arthur Applin - Blackthorn Farm

But he was afraid. He had failed twice already. He could not afford to fail a third time. If he failed ruin faced him, and disgrace. His father had warned him that the money he had saved for his education had come to...

Tony Oliva 7 hours 38 minutes

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William Le Queux - Whither Thou Goest

The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a “penniless nobody,” and announced that he would marry her against all opposition. He determined to separate the lovers; to which end he...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 50 minutes

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Captain Quincy Allen - Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods

“That looks like a challenge, Frank.” “It was well fired, at any rate, Bluff!” “I should say yes, because it knocked my hat clear off my head. Do we stand for that sort of thing, or shall we accept the dare?” “There...

Joy Leavesley and 4 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Bertrand W. Sinclair - Land of Frozen Suns

Bertrand W. Sinclair was known for his novels which centered in and around the rugged and frozen terrain of Montana and later, British Columbia. The Land of Frozen Suns is primarily an action and adventure novel which...

Roger Melin 6 hours 41 minutes

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Roy J. Snell - Purple Flame

Two years after the conclusion of «The Blue Envelope», Marian is crossing the frozen Alaskan tundra alone with three reindeer in order to greet her unknown cousin in Nome. Patsy has traveled from Kentucky. Kentucky!...

Lynne T 4 hours 26 minutes

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Robert Sidney Bowen - Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal

One of a series of youth-oriented adventure books set in contemporary WWII era, featuring fictional American flying ace, Dave Dawson. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Richard Kilmer 5 hours 25 minutes

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Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a «a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed...

David Wales 5 hours 15 minutes

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Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading)

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading)

The last of the famous «Scarlet Pimpernel» books, the «Triumph» tells the story of the final confrontation between the Scarlet Pimpernel and his nemesis, Chauvelin. Set at the end of the Reign of Terror, the fortunes...

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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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