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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (Version 4)

This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a room at his inn and later dies. The map spreads its ill luck to all who know...

Mark F. Smith 7 hours 34 minutes

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Jack London - Call of the Wild (Version 3)

Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 24 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Roy J. Snell - On the Yukon Trail

Curlie Carson and Joe Marion are chasing a radio outlaw across the frozen Alaska territory. It should be a simple dogsled trip, especially with hints from the mysterious “whisperer.” But wolves, blizzards, reindeer...

Tom Penn 3 hours 56 minutes

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Edgar Wallace - Book of All Power

The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace is set in London at the beginning, and then the action moves to Russia. The story covers the period from 1910 to 1919 during which the Russian Revolution takes place and this...

Peter Thomlinson 5 hours 26 minutes

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Lawrence Perry - Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport

Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian prince, who is of questionable character, or the chauffeur, who would...

Jim Locke 5 hours 57 minutes

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Alexandre Dumas - Queen's Necklace

The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, «The Diamond Necklace Affair». The Diamond Necklace Affair contributed to the...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan 12 hours 20 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Man-Eater

Africa: The land of savagery and splendor. Where a marriage between an adventurer and a missionary's daughter is cut short by invading locals. A wife, forced to flee with her newborn daughter to the only family left....

Joseph DeNoia 2 hours 48 minutes

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Honoré de Balzac - Red Inn

Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. — Summary by pmstrahm

pmstrahm 1 hour 35 minutes

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d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

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Alexandre Dumas - d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieutenant of the King’s Musketeers. In this post, he is very near to achieving...

John Van Stan 31 hours 29 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Lester del Rey - Pursuit

Wilbur Hawkes wakes with no memory of the last seven months. He knows he's in danger, but he doesn’t know why. No sooner does he leave his apartment than it explodes in flames, and, to escape, he must run through New...

Dale Grothmann 2 hours

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Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

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Anonymous - Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so he will be able to stand proudly with his ancestors. — Summary by Fritz

Phil Schempf 3 hours 2 minutes

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Rafael Sabatini - Snare

A story of burning jealousy and romance set in the British peninsula campaign against Napoleon. A British officers family is ensnared by mistakes, secrets, and false accusations. ( Peter Strahm)

pmstrahm 9 hours 28 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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