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Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 05, May 1930

The fifth issue of Astounding Stories continues the Ray Cummings serial «Brigands of the Moon», begins a 4 part novel by Murray Leinster, and presents a sequel by Sewell Peaslee Wright to his story in the March issue....

Mike Pelton and 3 more 8 hours 23 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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A. E. W. Mason - Watchers

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a...

Jacquerie 6 hours 7 minutes

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Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air

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Jules Verne - Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air

In the final months of the American Civil War five Northerners find themselves trapped in the Southern capital of Richmond. They conceive of a plan to escape with a baloon kept nearby. However, not all goes as...

Piotr Nater 5 hours 56 minutes

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Captain of the Polestar, and other tales

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Captain of the Polestar, and other tales

This is a collection of early Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 24 minutes

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Max Brand - Bull Hunter

Bull Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. But Pete Reeve didn't have the reputation of a dead shot because he relied on his...

Richard Kilmer 5 hours 42 minutes

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Arthur J. Burks - Astounding Stories 04, April 1930

The fourth issue of Astounding Stories continues Ray Cummings serial «Brigands of the Moon», along with pulp sci-fi stories by Capt. S. P. Meek, Anthony Pelcher and other authors. — Summary by Alan Winterrowd

Tommy Howell and 3 more 7 hours 33 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Moorland Cottage

«Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to her wish to marry Frank and live for herself. Maggie's plight for independence...

Lynne T and 6 more 4 hours 30 minutes

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Virginians

It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the...

Nick Bulka 39 hours 2 minutes

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Jeff Sutton - First on the Moon

The four men had been scrutinized, watched, investigated, and intensively trained for more than a year. They were the best men to be found for that first, all-important flight to the Moon--the pioneer manned rocket...

Richard Kilmer 6 hours 58 minutes

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Murray Leinster - Murder Madness

Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. So Bell, of the secret «Trade,» plunges into South America...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 32 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces In The Red Cross

The 10th and final book in the series for adolescent girls sees two of the three cousins react to atrocities in World War I by volunteering in the Red Cross. Written under the pseudonym of Edith Van Dyne, this is the...

Lynne T 4 hours 32 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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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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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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