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Charles Dickens - Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of...

Ric F 3 hours 43 minutes

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Dawn of a To-morrow

A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city. He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day to purchase a hand gun he had seen in a pawnshop window. The morning...

Linda Andrus 2 hours 3 minutes

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Zoe Anderson Norris - Way of the Wind

From the comfort of the hills of Kentucky traveled Celia and her husband Seth to the desolate prairies of Kansas, where cyclones, tornadoes, and endless wind were to greet them. Always, there was the wind cutting...

Roger Melin 4 hours 5 minutes

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Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas (English Translation)

Michael Kohlhaas is an 1811 novella by Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Both the theme (a fanatical quest for justice) and the style (existentialist detachment posing as a...

Greg W. 4 hours 8 minutes

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Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida

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Oliver Optic - Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida

«Down South» is the fifth and last volume but one of the «Great Western Series.» The action of the story is confined entirely to Florida; and this fact may seem to belie the title of the Series. But the young...

Stevan Simmons 6 hours 42 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Crucial Instances

This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, «Copy: A Dialogue,» is written as a short play. The role of Hilda is read by Arielle Lipshaw, and the role of...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 6 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Greater Inclination

This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nature and purpose of...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 7 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - American Senator

The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 21 hours 40 minutes

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Rabindranath Tagore - Mashi and Other Stories

A 1918 collection of short stories, by the popular Bengali writer.(Summary by BellonaTimes)

om123 and 7 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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John J. McGuire - Null-ABC

«There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible for war. Take it one step further: What happens if „book-learnin'“ is held responsible ...?» (quote from Astounding Science Fiction, Feb 1953)

Corinna Schultz 3 hours 33 minutes

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Henry James - In the Cage

In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic...

Lee Ann Howlett 3 hours 56 minutes

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Susan Warner - Diana

Diana Starling is the beautiful and quiet daughter of a cold and mentally abusive mother. She falls in love with Evan Nolton, but her mother wishes her to marry someone else. Yet, despite her mother's strong...

Bridget Gaige 12 hours 50 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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