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Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov - Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will again tell me that a human being cannot be so wicked, and I will reply that...

Kevin W. Davidson 6 hours 27 minutes

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Mary Hallock Foote - Touch of the Sun and Other Stories

Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the...

David Wales 6 hours 20 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Max Brand - Riders of the Silences

The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 16 minutes

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O. Henry - Gentle Grafter

If Jefferson «Parleyvoo» Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the «Gentle Grifter» instead of the «Gentle Grafter», the name O. Henry picked for him. His situation as an ethical...

Leslie Walden 4 hours 36 minutes

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E. F. Benson - Dodo Wonders

«Dodo Wonders» is the third and last of the «Dodo» novels by E.F. Benson, author of the «Mapp and Lucia» series as well as numerous stand-alone novels and short stories. Dodo was rumored to be based on Lady Margot...

CrowGirl 5 hours 52 minutes

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Pascal Ramseier and 28 more 13 hours 2 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Jean Webster - Jerry

Jerry is the humorous story of a young man's attempt to win his lady. Jerry is waiting for his friends at a hotel in Italy, and is bored and lonely. When he hears that a beautiful American lady, Constance Wilder, is...

Lynne T and 4 more 4 hours 8 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Ray Cummings - Phantoms of Reality

Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension. (Summary by Ray Cummings)

Richard Kilmer 2 hours 4 minutes

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Page Andrews - Dixie Book of Days

The author used a yearly calendar to focus on pieces written by Southern authors. Many of these writers are little known, having created for their own enjoyment or peace of mind, not necessarily for publication....

Bill Boerst 4 hours 29 minutes

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Hugh Walpole - Golden Scarecrow

Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The Golden Scarecrow, in nine chapters, presents nine stories of nine children,...

Cynthia Moyer 8 hours 1 minute

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Cranford (version 2)

Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gossip and their romances as they face the challenges of dealing with new...

NoelBadrian 8 hours 54 minutes

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Guy Morton - Rangy Pete

Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of the Azure Hills). In this one, the Gary Cooper-esque title character, Rangy...

Grant Hurlock 9 hours 40 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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