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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughs’ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands of a motherly African ape who raises him as her own. Although he is aware...

Mark F. Smith 9 hours 21 minutes Tarzan Series

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R. M. Ballantyne - Madman and The Pirate

R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of...

Anita Roy Dobbs and 5 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Return of Tarzan

The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul...

Ralph Snelson 9 hours 11 minutes Tarzan Series

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Dorado

El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments...

Karen Savage 10 hours 56 minutes

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Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading)

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading)

Baroness Emma («Emmuska») Orczy (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet...

Belinda Brown 8 hours 22 minutes

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Jules Verne - Fur Country

In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees, north of the Arctic Circle. At some point, an earthquake occurs, and from...

Esther 13 hours 36 minutes

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Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction....

Scott Robbins and 12 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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R. M. Ballantyne - Golden Dream

Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, complete with everything from mining techniques to societal attitudes. You'll...

Lee Elliott 9 hours 47 minutes

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote - Vol. 2

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he...

Denny Sayers and 23 more 21 hours 52 minutes

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Anthony Hope - Rupert of Hentzau

This is the sequel to 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Five years have passed. The King has become jealous of Rudolf Rassendyll and suspicious of the queen (Flavia)'s feelings towards him. Flavia decides that this must be...

Andy Minter 8 hours 45 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows (version 3)

The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy...

Adrian Praetzellis 6 hours 55 minutes

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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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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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