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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Gerard

These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrecting him some ten years later. The swashbuckling, eponymous hero, Etienne...

Phil Griffiths 6 hours 43 minutes

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wylder's Hand

The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people involved do not seem to like the idea. Before the wedding, Mark disappears. But...

Tina Nuzzi and 11 more 17 hours 1 minute

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R. M. Ballantyne - Black Ivory

Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking...

Tom Weiss 9 hours 36 minutes

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Jules Verne - Facing the Flag

Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally...

John Kooz and 2 more 6 hours 11 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Great Shadow

Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore...

Jacquerie 3 hours 52 minutes

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Alessandro Manzoni - Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)

The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo, two young persons of humble origin that are deeply in love with one another....

TriciaG and 14 more 29 hours 11 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Nigger of the Narcissus

This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off the Cape that year.” From Wikepedia: “The novel is seen as an allegory...

Tom Crawford 6 hours 21 minutes

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P. G. Wodehouse - William Tell Told Again

This is the classic story of William Tell — Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter — as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodehouse. No Swiss were (permanently) injured in the telling of this story;...

Mark F. Smith 1 hour 44 minutes

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Children's Fiction

498

Richard Barnum - Squinty the Comical Pig

«This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors to write children's tales, and gave them „house names“. The „name“ of the author...

jedopi and 2 more 2 hours 17 minutes

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Olive Schreiner - Story of an African Farm

The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults — Waldo, Em and Lyndall — who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late...

SallyMc 10 hours 26 minutes

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Jules Verne - Off on a Comet

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form...

Patrick Wells and 14 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms

A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight. To quote the author «though presented in the guise of fiction, this chronicle of the Marston family...

Graeme Dunlop and 11 more 19 hours 47 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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