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Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did (version 2)

Follow the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, through good times and bad. (Summary by Karen Savage)

Karen Savage 4 hours 35 minutes Katy Did Series

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560

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Story of Avis

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a talented painter, and bucks against the constraints placed on women in the 19th...

Elizabeth Klett 10 hours 25 minutes

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563

Algernon Blackwood - Man Whom the Trees Loved

The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour

Amy Gramour 2 hours 30 minutes

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571

Charles Dickens - Battle of Life

While «The Battle of Life» is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books — his annual release of a story just before Christmas — this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle,...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 28 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

501

L. Adams Beck - Ninth vibration and other stories

This is a collection of the following short stories: The Ninth Vibration — The Interpreter: A Romance of the East — The Incomparable Lady: A Story of China with a Moral — The Hatred of the Queen: A Story of Burma —...

Linda Andrus 7 hours 55 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Gentle Julia

Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 8 hours 11 minutes

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698

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 2)

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in...

Arthur Piantadosi and 1 more 17 hours 28 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

478

Philip Jose Farmer - Rastignac The Devil

French colonists on a planet ruled by reptiles and amphibians are forced to wear living “skins” that subdue aggression and enforce vegetarianism. As children, Rastignac and his reptile friend Mapfarity force...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 59 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

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521

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world...

jedopi and 12 more 6 hours 26 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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529

My First Book

This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which over twenty well-known authors write with characteristic style and...

Ruth Golding and 1 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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574

Talbot Mundy - King of the Khyber Rifles

Athelstan King is a British Secret Agent stationed in India at the beginning of WWI. He is attached to the Khyber Rifles regiment as a cover, but his real job is to prevent a holy war. «To stop a holy war...

Brett W. Downey 9 hours 56 minutes

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568

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd

Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is beautiful, clever and rich. Two men instantly fall in love with her. But...

Jacquerie and 12 more 20 hours 20 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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