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Herman Melville - Mardi Vol. 1

«Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and...

Ecological Humanist and 1 more 10 hours 46 minutes

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Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier

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Frances Trego Montgomery - Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier

Zip, a little fox terrier, lives in the town of Maplewood in the house of his owner, Dr. Elsworth. Each day when Dr. Elsworth drives his carriage to visit his patients, Zip goes along with him so that he can keep the...

Lee Ann Howlett 1 hour 38 minutes

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John Wood Campbell. Jr. - Ultimate Weapon

The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a...

Richard Kilmer 3 hours 39 minutes

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Max Brand - Gunman's Reckoning

A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 45 minutes

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François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a...

Martin Geeson and 5 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Wreck of the Golden Mary

A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summary by JCarson )

James E. Carson 1 hour 20 minutes

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Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights around a camp-fire, and long days on the trail. It is about a party of all sorts,...

Laura Victoria 1 hour 28 minutes

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Amy Le Feuvre - Teddy's Button

Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield and guards his button jealously. But this brings contention and strife when a new girl comes to town. Teddy begins to learn what it...

GabrielleC 2 hours 21 minutes

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Jack London - Game

Jack London wrote at least four stories about boxing; A Piece of Steak (1909), The Mexican (1911), The Abysmal Brute (1911), and The Game (1905). The Game is told, in part, from the point of view of a woman, the...

Tom Crawford 1 hour 41 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Dead Secret

«Everything in life has a price. May be, telling a Secret has the highest. However, not telling may be worse. What will Sarah choose? will she tell the Secret which destroyed her life?» (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Helen Falconer and 5 more 16 hours 18 minutes

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James Oliver Curwood - Kazan

Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood. After a trip to the Yukon area of Canada and Alaska, Curwood wrote a series...

Leonard Wilson 7 hours 19 minutes

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In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy

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G. A. Henty - In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy

Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France to serve a French Marquis, despite the rumblings of a revolution. Follow along...

J L Raimundo and 2 more 7 hours 35 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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