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Arthur J. Rees - Shrieking Pit

The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective, is holidaying in East Anglia when he notices a young man at a nearby table...

Kevin Green 8 hours 57 minutes

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Gilbert Parker - Right of Way

Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in- law, Billy. In spite of his success, he is disillusioned with his life, drinks too much, and is...

Tom Weiss 12 hours 17 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

483

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Doings of Raffles Haw

The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors spread like wildfire about him. The advent of Mr. Haw, however, changes the town,...

Patrick Wells 3 hours 36 minutes

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Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint

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Maud Jean Franc - Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint

'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free settlement of Adelaide in pre-Federation Australia. The novel follows the...

Kirsty Leishman 4 hours 50 minutes

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Gertrude Stein - Geography and Plays

Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's «word portraits,» or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or «portraits», were designed to evoke...

Arielle Lipshaw and 16 more 12 hours 35 minutes

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Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)

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Henry Fielding - Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber....

1 hour 38 minutes

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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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Siege of Corinth

In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: revealing the closing scenes of the conflict through the eyes of Lanciotto — a...

Nathan 58 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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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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