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W. S. Gilbert - Story of H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571...

NoelBadrian 2 hours 1 minute

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454

John Kendrick Bangs - Coffee and Repartee

First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemans boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here these fellows repeatedly face questions and proclaimations of an inhabitant...

Daryl Wor 1 hour 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

489

B. M. Bower - Lure of the Dim Trails

Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought...

Richard Kilmer and 2 more 3 hours 10 minutes

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532

George Eliot - Felix Holt, The Radical

«Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the 1832 parliament election, is used...

acousticwave and 11 more 19 hours 8 minutes

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456

Alice Muriel Williamson - Girl Who Had Nothing

The Girl Who Had Nothing is about a young orphan girl in desperate circumstances, who throws herself on the mercy of an elderly stranger. By her own intelligence and wit, she manages to survive, and very nicely at...

LynnAlison and 3 more 3 hours 39 minutes

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488

Edgar Fawcett - Douglas Duane

An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love with the book collector’s fiancée, he concocts an evil plot to have her for his...

ashleighjane and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

483

Owen Wister - Members of the Family

Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 7 hours 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

457

John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes and Co.

Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This...

ToddHW and 1 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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511

Jean Webster - When Patty Went to College

When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the turn of the 20th century. Patty Wyatt, the protagonist of this story is a...

Daryl Wor 3 hours 46 minutes

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471

Edward Eggleston - Hoosier Schoolmaster

«Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes. You might teach a...

Bridget Gaige 5 hours 48 minutes

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476

Grace Livingston Hill - Voice in the Wilderness

Margaret leaves her family home and security to become a school teacher in the wilds of early Arizona. Accidentally getting off her safe and warm train at the wrong place, she encounters first hand the wildness and...

Kristine Hake and 3 more 10 hours 33 minutes

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Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading)

Anne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green...

7 hours 46 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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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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