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Children's Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Story of Peter Pan

THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original play, with the approval of Barrie, and shortened it into a book with...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 1 minute

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Children's Fiction

431

Jean Ingelow - Mopsa The Fairy

Jean Ingelow (1820 – 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the first female Poet Laureate when he died in 1892. Mopsa the...

NoelBadrian 4 hours 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

447

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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Fantastic Fiction

513

August Strindberg - Ghost Sonata

The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten) is a play in three acts by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Written in 1907, it was first produced at Strindberg's Intimate Theatre in Stockholm on 21 January 1908… The Ghost Sonata...

1 hour 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

452

Ray Cummings - World Beyond

Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a strange voyage. (Summary by Richard Kilmer )

Richard Kilmer 1 hour 31 minutes

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Children's Fiction

489

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures Underground

This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was generously illustrated by Carrol and meant to entertain his family and friends....

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

448

Mary Knight Potter - Peggy's Trial

Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and Harry, live with their father, Dr. Clayton, and Nurse, a woman who has taken care of them since the death of their mother when Peggy was five. Peggy...

Lee Ann Howlett 1 hour 39 minutes

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452

Marie Corelli - Romance of Two Worlds

The book starts with a young heroine telling her story of coping with a debilitating illness that includes depression and thoughts of suicide. Her doctor is unable to help her and sends her off on a holiday where she...

Amy Gramour 10 hours 22 minutes

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Children's Fiction

557

Walter De la Mare - Three Mulla-mulgars

Three monkey brothers, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod, are Mulla-mulgars or royal monkeys. As she dies, their mother gives them the enchanted Wonderstone for protection, and tells them to follow their father. They embark on...

Amy Gramour and 2 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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510

Oscar Wilde - Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version)

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised...

Bob Neufeld 9 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

460

Rudyard Kipling - Brushwood Boy

The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream world he discovers and frequents. (Summary by Liam Neely)

Liam Neely 1 hour 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

459

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan the Terrible

In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 9 minutes Tarzan Series

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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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