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Arthur W. Marchmont - Dash for a Throne

The young Count von Rudloff got himself into so much trouble with the Imperial Family in Berlin, that he sees no other way out of it than to fake his own death. Stumbling through different identities, he finally...

Crln Yldz Ksr 12 hours 4 minutes

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Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading)

The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards. Some of Holmes's...

4 hours 5 minutes

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Alfred John Church - Stories from Virgil

Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as «The Horse of Wood» and «The Love and Death of Dido,» as well as many others perhaps less...

Bill Boerst 5 hours 13 minutes

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Murray Leinster - Pariah Planet (version 2)

When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. (Summary by Gutenberg text)

Mark Nelson 4 hours 1 minute

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Children's Fiction

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Frank Gee Patchin - Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks

Yee-Haw!!! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time the boys are in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri. With Joe Hawk, or Eagle-eye, guiding them, Professor Zepplin and the Pony Rider Boys are sure to find...

Richard Kilmer and 5 more 5 hours 1 minute The Pony Rider Boys series

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Joseph Conrad - Almayer's Folly

A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when other influences cause distrust in...

Kristel Tretter 7 hours 16 minutes

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Harold Bindloss - Northwest!

Northwest! takes place in western Canada, primarily western Alberta and British Columbia. The story revolves around Jimmy not being sure whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he and some...

Roger Melin 9 hours 20 minutes

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Apollonius Rhodius - Argonautica

The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote his Argonautica, in the 3rd century b.C… It is not only the...

Leni and 7 more 6 hours 52 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Outcast Of The Islands

An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vigar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable,...

Tom Weiss 10 hours 47 minutes

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James Oliver Curwood - Gold Hunters

In The Gold Hunters we find 3 men in search of a treasure of gold hidden away in the upper reaches of the Canadian wilderness. One, a young white man, another his half breed friend, and the third the wise old Indian...

Roger Melin 6 hours 38 minutes

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William Morris - Well at the World's End

The Well at the World's End is thought to be one of the first examples of an entirely fictional fantasy world, and has greatly influenced later fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book follows...

BumbleVee and 7 more 5 hours

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Andre Norton - Storm Over Warlock, Version 2

The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 10 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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