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P. G. Wodehouse - William Tell Told Again

This is the classic story of William Tell — Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter — as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodehouse. No Swiss were (permanently) injured in the telling of this story;...

Mark F. Smith 1 hour 44 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection, Book 3

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was...

Phil Griffiths and 1 more 4 hours Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

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Olive Schreiner - Story of an African Farm

The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults — Waldo, Em and Lyndall — who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late...

SallyMc 10 hours 26 minutes

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John Neihardt - Song of Hugh Glass

This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 — just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians — and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the...

Nathan 2 hours 21 minutes

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Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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Jules Verne - Off on a Comet

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form...

Patrick Wells and 14 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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George Gissing - In the Year of Jubilee

The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the harsh and disreputable conditions of lower-middle class life at the end of the...

skoval 15 hours

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Abraham Merritt - Moon Pool

Dr. David Throckmartin’s scientific expedition to the South Sea Islands discovers among ancient ruins a portal into Muria, an unknown underground world. After the disappearance of Throckmartin, his wife and two...

Mark Nelson 12 hours 3 minutes

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rappaccini's Daughter

The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation....

Brett W. Downey 1 hour 12 minutes

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Best Russian Short Stories

In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of...

greatbasinrain and 13 more 10 hours 33 minutes

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Thomas Beer - Fair Rewards

«The Fair Rewards» by Thomas Beer... is a really distiguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sophistication and personality, intermingled with a truly vivid show of imagination. It even...

Greg W. 6 hours 39 minutes

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Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms

A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight. To quote the author «though presented in the guise of fiction, this chronicle of the Marston family...

Graeme Dunlop and 11 more 19 hours 47 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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