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Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso

Charlemagne's nephew Orlando (AKA Roland) is driven insane by the infidelity of his beloved Angelica. Angelica's relationship with him and others loosely unifies multiple story lines to produce a rich tapestry of...

Thomas A. Copeland 28 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

433

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery Of Cloomber

This novel is written by the author of, among other novels, the Stories of Sherlock Holmes. It is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is...

Delmar H Dolbier 5 hours 20 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

497

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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Fantastic Fiction

492

William Morris - News From Nowhere

News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 24 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mary Louisa Molesworth - Palace in the Garden

The Palace in the Garden is the engaging story of three orphans sent to live in the mysterious country cottage of ROSEBUDS. The inquisitive children piece together the unexpected mystery of the Palace in the garden &...

ilianthe 4 hours 7 minutes

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Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

Children's Fiction

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John Lang - Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels , from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The children's adventure story covers Gulliver's visits to the lands of Lilliput...

Laurie Anne Walden and 5 more 2 hours

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. G. Wells - War in the Air

War in the Air was written during a prolific time in H. G. Wells's writing career. Having withdrawn from British politics to spend more time on his own ideas, he published twelve books between 1901 and 1911, including...

Frank Booker and 6 more 10 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Time Machine (Version 3)

H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human...

Mark Nelson 3 hours 39 minutes

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H. G. Wells - World Set Free (version 2)

Radioactive decay is a major theme in the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914. Wells explores what might happen if the rate of decay could be sped up. The book may have encouraged scientists to explore...

Jules Hawryluk and 1 more 8 hours 4 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

494

William Morris - House of the Wolfings

William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time such as Dante Rossetti. His fascination with ancient Germanic and Norse people...

Elizabeth Klett and 10 more 8 hours 17 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

Fantastic Fiction

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Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the...

John Greenman 1 hour 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1

The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by Eugène Sue which was published serially in Journal des débats from June 19, 1842 until October 15, 1843. Les Mystères de Paris singlehandedly...

Cori Samuel and 11 more 11 hours 15 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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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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