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Robert Louis Stevenson - New Arabian Nights

New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his best work in the genre. The first and longest story stars Prince Florizel...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 55 minutes

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Lloyd Osbourne - Ebb-Tide

Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of...

Mark F. Smith 5 hours 23 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Well-Beloved

'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women — the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years. Pierston is seeking for perfection in...

Simon Evers 6 hours 28 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Round the Sofa

Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South, Wives and...

NoelBadrian 16 hours 15 minutes

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Frank Norris - Octopus

Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranchers and agents of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The central issue was over...

Delmar H Dolbier 21 hours 44 minutes

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Louis Joseph Vance - Lone Wolf

The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made...

William Tomcho and 6 more 8 hours 3 minutes

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Alfred Lawson - Born Again

«I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said...

Chuck Williamson and 1 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Mark Twain - American Claimant

The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, «all men are created...

John Greenman 6 hours 42 minutes

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Guy de Maupassant - Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat - version 2)

Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War,...

Bob Neufeld 1 hour 44 minutes

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Ray Cummings - World Beyond

Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a strange voyage. (Summary by Richard Kilmer )

Richard Kilmer 1 hour 31 minutes

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Edna Lyall - Autobiography of a Slander

The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tale, told from the point of view of «the slander», Edna Lyall (pseudonym used...

Rhonda Federman 1 hour 41 minutes

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George Manville Fenn - Young Robin Hood

Ever wonder how Robin Hood became Robin Hood? Well, now you can read how a young boy was molded into the famous hero who «robbed from the rich and gave to the poor». This imaginative story gives zesty details into the...

Bill Mosley and 4 more 1 hour 35 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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