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George Ade - Fables in Slang

While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 43 minutes

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Emma Wolf - Other Things Being Equal

Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jewish and he is not. Can love overcome such an obstacle? And what is more...

Amy Gramour and 6 more 7 hours 1 minute

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Fantastic Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Pursuit of the House-Boat

This sequel to Bangs' A House-Boat on the Styx continues the «thought-experiment» of bringing various historical and fictional figures together, detailing the adventures of the ladies of Hades after they are kidnapped...

Emma Joyce 3 hours 8 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol (Version 03)

Old miser Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a major transformation after being visited by his deceased colleague Jacob Marley, who warns him to change his ways and has three spirits visit him on the night of Christmas Eve....

Jeff Robinson 2 hours 38 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Last Chronicle of Barset

Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar from the earlier Barsetshire novels, including the Rev. Josiah Crawley, the...

Nicholas Clifford and 10 more 35 hours 19 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - American Fairy Tales

This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stories, as critics have noted, lack the high-fantasy aspect of the best of...

Matthew Reece 2 hours 56 minutes

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Thomas W. Hanshew - Riddle of the Frozen Flame

Another full-length mystery story featuring Hamilton Cleek, whom we met first in Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces . This time, Cleek investigates the sinister disappearance of people and the mysterious...

Ruth Golding 8 hours 7 minutes

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History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Eliza Haywood - History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1

The flirtations of a rich young maiden, Miss Betsy Thoughtless with several suitors, as she alienates the right man by refusing to take the issue of marriage seriously. Because of this her guardian commits her to...

Joyce Martin and 3 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Henry James - Altar of the Dead

A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events....

Dorlene Kaplan and 1 more 1 hour 32 minutes

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 4)

When Mr Henry Dashwood dies, with his estate entailed to his son and grandson, his wife and three daughters are left in reduced circumstances. In their new home at Barton Cottage, the two older sisters, Elinor and...

Karen Savage 11 hours

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Irvin S. Cobb - J. Poindexter, Colored

This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Priest, while the judge is vacationing abroad. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)

Grant Hurlock 5 hours 55 minutes

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James Joyce - Ulysses (version 2)

Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting narrative styles. It was published in serial form between 1918-1920 and...

Brian and 16 more 31 hours 44 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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