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E. E. Smith - Triplanetary

“Doc” E.E. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. Physics, time, and politics never stand in the way of a plot that gallops ahead without letup. Having...

Mark F. Smith 6 hours 25 minutes

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Richard Jefferies - After London, or Wild England

Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of «post-apocalyptic fiction.» After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a...

Ruth Golding 10 hours 6 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4)

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of...

John Greenman 10 hours 1 minute

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy (version 2)

In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or «dearest») in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an...

Susan Umpleby 6 hours

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Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School

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Jessie Graham Flower - Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School

This delightful book tells about a group of smart young people who get up to some wonderful adventures together — and save one another from troubles. The unofficial leader of the group is Grace Harlowe, the title...

Christine Blachford 4 hours 3 minutes Grace Harlowe Series

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R. M. Ballantyne - Coral Island

Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph...

Tom Weiss 10 hours 37 minutes

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H. Beam Piper - Last Enemy

An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and it’s up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassination is...

Mark Nelson 2 hours 39 minutes

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Jack London - Sea Wolf

The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote «The great...

Tom Crawford 11 hours 29 minutes

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Kirk Munroe - Copper Princess

The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story features a brave and wholesome hero struggling for his rightful copper...

Betsie Bush 5 hours 58 minutes

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Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a...

Mark F. Smith 23 hours 22 minutes

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Rebecca West - Return of the Soldier

In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 47 minutes

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Sinclair Lewis - Free Air

This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as they travel by automobile from Minneapolis to Seattle. She is wooed and won by...

Hollis Hanover 8 hours 22 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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