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Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 3

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R. M. Ballantyne - Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 3

In this, our last short story, we join a fishing expedition in Norway.

Foon 26 minutes

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Cave On Thunder Cloud

Tish Carberry reluctantly takes her two best friends, Aggie and Lizzie, on a camping trip into the hills of their Midwestern American town, only to fall in with outlaws on the lam from a train robbery! Comic adventure...

VfkaBT 1 hour 24 minutes

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Richard Harding Davis - Spy

Mr. Crosby is a high-ranking official known to be often entrusted with secret government missions. But when he finds himself in Valencia, that's entirely an accident and has nothing to do with any such mission at all....

Crln Yldz Ksr 54 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Aaron Trow

What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from would-be captors. The struggle is brutal. In the end, we are left wondering which...

Bill Boerst 1 hour 3 minutes

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Richard Harding Davis - My Buried Treasure

«This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story,...

Crln Yldz Ksr 50 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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William S. Hart - Told Under a White Oak Tree

An inside look into the wild world of silent movie cowboy William S. Hart… as narrated by his horse! This is a fascinating (if fictionalized) behind-the-scenes look into the wild, action-packed world of a Hollywood...

Chuck Williamson 55 minutes

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James Brendan Connolly - Trawler

The Trawler is a short story revolving around the trying life of a group of bank fishermen based in Gloucester. Skipper Hugh Glynn worked his men hard; some said too hard, and Arthur Snow was one who had paid the...

Roger Melin 1 hour 4 minutes

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James B. Blish - Thing in the Attic

Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesn’t believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants created his tree-dwelling race. He makes his opinion known and is banished with his infidel friends to the...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 22 minutes

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Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound

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William Robert Spencer - Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound by William Robert Spencer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 8, 2012. William Robert Spencer, English poet...

April Gonzales and 15 more 1 hour 24 minutes

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Richard Harding Davis - Make-Believe Man

Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer «Patience» for his holiday, and when one has a man with such a vivid imagination like Joseph Forbes Kinney as a travel companion, who...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 21 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Owen Wister - New Swiss Family Robinson

A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 28 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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H. P. Nichols - Broken Vase and Other Stories

The Broken Vase and Other Stories; for Children and Youth, Compiled by a Teacher FITCHBURG: PUBLISHED BY S. & C. SHEPLEY. 1847. WM. J. MERRIAM, PRINTER, FITCHBURG. (Summary from the Frontspiece)

K.G.Cross and 4 more 57 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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