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Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed

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William Alexander MacKay - Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed

By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East and part of West Zorra, and containing a population of about fourteen...

MaryAnn and 9 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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Anton Chekhov - Duel

The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, amid dreams of starting a new life. The dreams have come to...

Phil Griffiths 5 hours 13 minutes Chekhov's Novellas

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - Contending Forces

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, editor, actress, and singer, is an African-American woman writer who has...

Margaret Espaillat 9 hours 1 minute

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Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil

Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English...

Greg W. 14 hours 38 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Secret Sharer

A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leggatt in his quarters. What is he thinking? Conrad will tell us. — The Secret...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 42 minutes

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P. G. Wodehouse - Intrusion of Jimmy

The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 43 minutes

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

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Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly...

Chris Donnelly and 17 more 16 hours 43 minutes

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Charles Miner Thompson - Calico Cat (version 2)

The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a shotgun at an annoying cat on his fence… and hits a man skulking in the...

Mark F. Smith 2 hours 30 minutes

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Willa Sibert Cather - O Pioneers! (version 2)

O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson,...

Bellona Times 5 hours 56 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Hilda Lessways

This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story of Hilda before her marriage to Edwin Clayhanger (from the first book)....

Simon Evers 11 hours 2 minutes The Clayhanger Family

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Richmal Crompton - Just William (version 2)

Just William is the first book of hilarious short stories about 11-year-old William Brown — eternally scruffy and frowning. William's family, his elder sister Ethel and brother Robert, placid mother and stern father,...

Kara Shallenberg 5 hours 28 minutes

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Charles Knight - Mind Amongst the Spindles

Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest...

MaryAnn 8 hours 15 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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