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Charles Lamb - Adventures of Ulysses

Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the...

Rebecca Dittman 3 hours 47 minutes

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H. Rider Haggard - Heart of the World

H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long lost city filled with gold and jewels! It is also a love story of a couple...

Paul Hansen 14 hours 11 minutes

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel

The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summary by Karen Savage)

Karen Savage 7 hours 49 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles

What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case in this classic mystery, set...

Laurie Anne Walden 5 hours 53 minutes

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John Buchan - Greenmantle

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr...

RedToby and 7 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

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E. W. Hornung - Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also published as The Black Mask ) is the second collection of stories in the Raffles series. After the dark turn of events at the end of The Gift of the...

Kristin Hughes 5 hours 39 minutes

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H. Rider Haggard - Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Quaterman and his two good friends from KSM have tired of their dull and...

John Nicholson 13 hours 7 minutes

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LibriVox volunteers - Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month . The twist is that there are up to 30 people writing together, instead of one toiling alone....

Juho Fröjd and 18 more 7 hours 37 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Saint George for England

A tale written for children in 1885. It tells of a child of noble birth whose parents have fallen foul of the current royalty. He is placed in hiding and grows up with a bowyer and then apprenticed to an armourer...

Jim Mowatt and 6 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Herman Melville - Moby Dick, or the Whale

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the...

Stewart Wills 24 hours 38 minutes

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Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did

What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. It follows the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, growing up in America in the 1860s. Katy is a tall untidy...

Laura M.D. and 7 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and...

TBOL3 8 hours 48 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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