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Louis Joseph Vance - Red Masquerade

In the beginning of his career, Michael Lanyard alias The Lone Wolf, the most talented thief of his day, made the acquaintance of the beautiful Princess Sofia, but he also made an enemy of her husband, Prince Victor....

CaprishaPage and 8 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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465

James Fenimore Cooper - Prairie - A Tale

The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of...

William Peck 15 hours 48 minutes Leatherstocking Tales

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Harry Collingwood - Cruise of the Esmeralda

After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is said to have buried a vast fortune in gold and jewels somewhere in the...

Christopher Webber and 5 more 10 hours 29 minutes

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B. M. Bower - Lure of the Dim Trails

Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought...

Richard Kilmer and 2 more 3 hours 10 minutes

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Owen Wister - Members of the Family

Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 7 hours 28 minutes

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John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes and Co.

Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This...

ToddHW and 1 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Carlo Collodi - Adventures of Pinocchio (version 2)

Do today's children still learn what a «marionette» is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a world not dominated by plastic or electronic toys. Pinocchio is a puppet made...

Mark F. Smith 4 hours 41 minutes

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Sky Racer

A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new...

Richard Kilmer and 3 more 4 hours 30 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study In Scarlet (Version 4)

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the...

Bob Neufeld 4 hours 45 minutes

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Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (Version 2)

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Lucy Aikin - Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (Version 2)

This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character — a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. You know...

David Biro and 3 more 2 hours 31 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Pawns Count

«I am for England and England only,» John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. «I am for Japan and Japan only,» Nikasti, the Jap, insisted. «I am for Germany first and America afterwards,» Oscar Fischer, the...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 6 minutes

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Scouts of Stonewall

In this third book of Joseph Altsheler's Civil War series, Harry Kenton, a lieutenant in the Southern Army, is on scout patrol in the Shenandoah Valley. He has attracted the notice of the great General Stonewall...

Lucretia B. and 6 more 9 hours 14 minutes The Civil War Series

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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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