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Arnold Bennett - Old Adam

Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midlands 'Five Towns'. Yet when he unexpectedly gains three hundred and forty-one...

Phil Benson and 6 more 9 hours 19 minutes

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Washington Irving - Tales of a Traveller

Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of people he met, places he saw and stories he was told. In fact, much of the work is...

Greg Giordano 12 hours 34 minutes

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George Payne Rainsford James - Convict

As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top,...

Lynne T 15 hours 31 minutes

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Ottwell Binns - Mating in the Wilds

An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods. While visiting a trading post, he encounters Ainley whom he had known when...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 37 minutes

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Fred M. White - Mystery of the Ravenspurs

The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged with strange happenings which are dwindling the population of the family to only...

Roger Melin 11 hours 59 minutes

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Andy Adams - Mystery of the Chinese Ring

The Mystery of the Chinese Ring is an exotic adventure story and is set in locations such as Burma and China, with the historical and political ramifications which applied to the mid Twentieth Century and still ring...

Peter Thomlinson 4 hours 3 minutes

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Eleven Possible Cases

This book brings together eleven stories, each a case of intrigue where more is going on than seems at first. — Summary by A. Gramour

Lynne T and 5 more 6 hours 58 minutes

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Edmund Flagg - Edmond Dantès

«Edmond Dantès» the Sequel to Alexander Dumas' masterpiece, «The Count of Monte-Cristo,» is a novel that will delight, entertain and instruct all who read it. It has wonderful fascination, absorbing interest and rare...

Jim Locke and 5 more 9 hours 38 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Round The Fire Stories

In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—such tales as might well be read “round the fire” upon a winter’s night. This...

David Wales 10 hours 11 minutes

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H. Rider Haggard - World's Desire

H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the rainbow coloured fairytale books) collaborate to lend their talent to one of...

Annyiee Hill and 4 more 10 hours 16 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Flying Girl

Frank L. Baum, author of the Oz books, delivers an engaging story for all ages. Orissa Kane works in order to provide for her family. Her mother is blind, while her brother devotes his time to his invention, a flying...

Diana Schmidt and 9 more 4 hours 50 minutes

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How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

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George Wilbur Peck - How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. He had a wry sense of humor and...

Arnold 9 hours 12 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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