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Dragon and the Raven: Or The Days of King Alfred

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G. A. Henty - Dragon and the Raven: Or The Days of King Alfred

During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they are overrun by the savagery and sheer numbers of the Danes. One of...

Mike Harris 7 hours 22 minutes

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Samuel Merwin - Short Line War

" The Short Line War is a story that will appeal more particularly to the sterner sex, and we take it that the hyphenated name, Merwin-Webster, stands for two healthy-minded young men who have put their heads...

Betsie Bush 6 hours 28 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Marble Faun

The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, Gothic novel, and...

grayeul and 5 more 16 hours 13 minutes

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Amelia Opie - Adeline Mowbray

Everybody makes mistakes, and everything has a price. This novel describes, according to its name, the life of Adeline Mowbray, full of everything: sorrow, happiness, falsehood, truth, kindness, and mistakes. This...

P Moscato 10 hours 51 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the «Chronicles of Barsetshire», first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. (Summary by Wikipedia) «Of all novelists...

Leonard Wilson and 7 more 20 hours 32 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Henry James - American

One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social...

Nicholas Clifford 14 hours 1 minute

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)

Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our...

Mark F. Smith 11 hours 14 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)

The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God...

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Henry James - Coxon Fund

This novella explores the relationship between Frank Saltram, a charismatic speaker who is also a freeloader; Ruth Anvoy, a young American who visits her widowed aunt, Lady Coxon, an American who married a Brit; and...

Larry Caplan and 1 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Star of Gettysburg

The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and a young Harry Kenton, is an eyewitness to the Confederate...

MaryAnn and 5 more 10 hours The Civil War Series

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung

The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic. Faced with a huge...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 45 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel

The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated railroad lines. The deadline is approaching, and the contractors have hit a...

Tom Weiss 4 hours 25 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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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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