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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the ninth volume, 37 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Marty Kris and 8 more 4 hours 45 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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Marion Zimmer Bradley - Colors of Space (version 2)

Young Bart Steele’s father is dead. A mysterious stranger tells him his life is in danger, and hands him a ticket aboard a Lhari star cruiser to an unknown destination. He gets on, not knowing where he is going, or...

Mark Nelson 5 hours 32 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Is He Popenjoy ?

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in «Doctor Thorne,» the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a...

Barry O'Neill and 11 more 20 hours 40 minutes

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George Gissing - Odd Women

George Gissing's 1893 novel takes on the 19th century «Woman Question» by looking at themes of feminism, marriage, and love. The novel raises these issues through the lives of several contrasting women: Mary Barfoot,...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 8 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol (version 04)

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional...

Bob Neufeld 3 hours 32 minutes

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John...

Bob Neufeld 3 hours 11 minutes

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Maria Thompson Daviess - Heart's Kingdom

Nickols Powers is in love with the beautiful Charlotte and desperate to marry her. Charlotte however, is independent and reluctant to accept his religious views as a good wife should. However, she may still be...

K.G.Cross and 5 more 6 hours 50 minutes

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Herman Landon - Gray Phantom

A woman is apparently murdered in a New York auditorium under very suspicious circumstances one evening during a performance. Helen Hardwick happened to be in attendance that evening, as she had written the play that...

Roger Melin 8 hours 12 minutes

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Fanny Burney - Wanderer

This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. «Who is „Miss Ellis?“ Why did she board a ship from France to England at the beginning of the French revolution? Anyway,...

Roxanna Nazari and 6 more 36 hours 22 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lovels of Arden

The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and...

Cate Barratt 15 hours 39 minutes

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Isabel Ostrander - Anything Once

An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some apparent 'rules' during the journey, while Lou seemed in need of better...

Roger Melin 3 hours 3 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Cousin Henry

Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite niece, Isabel, or a male heir? The story turns on the trouble that arises when Indefer fails to tell anyone his final decision before...

Jean Bascom 5 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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