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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Emerson Hough - Covered Wagon

«Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families.» This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oregon Trail, just before the California Gold Rush. It is the story of a wagon train bound...

Lynne T and 9 more 9 hours 26 minutes

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Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World

Action & Adventure Fiction

777

Willis George Emerson - Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World

The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a...

JaySands 2 hours 6 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Protagoras

Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The...

Kevin Johnson 3 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

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Owen Wister - Lady Baltimore

Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research geneaologies and records to find proof that he is descended from royalty so that he can...

Lois Hill 9 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

953

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Gods of Mars - (version 2)

In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant saved the planet's inhabitants, but he finds himself in the land of the dead....

Thomas A. Copeland 8 hours 41 minutes

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Children's Fiction

950

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island (version 4)

The third book in the Anne of Green Gables series accompanies beloved redhead Anne Shirley to Redmond College. Here Anne receives numerous proposals, befriends a mangled but determined pussy cat, and sets up...

Rachel 7 hours 11 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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General Fiction

768

Stella Benson - This Is the End

Some books have plots that drive relentlessly toward a conclusion. Others, like «This Is The End», just meander. It is the story of a Family halfheartedly searching for a missing relation who does not want to be...

Peter Eastman 5 hours 21 minutes

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Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov - Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will again tell me that a human being cannot be so wicked, and I will reply that...

Kevin W. Davidson 6 hours 27 minutes

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General Fiction

751

Mary Hallock Foote - Touch of the Sun and Other Stories

Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the...

David Wales 6 hours 20 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Max Brand - Riders of the Silences

The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 16 minutes

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O. Henry - Gentle Grafter

If Jefferson «Parleyvoo» Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the «Gentle Grifter» instead of the «Gentle Grafter», the name O. Henry picked for him. His situation as an ethical...

Leslie Walden 4 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

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E. F. Benson - Dodo Wonders

«Dodo Wonders» is the third and last of the «Dodo» novels by E.F. Benson, author of the «Mapp and Lucia» series as well as numerous stand-alone novels and short stories. Dodo was rumored to be based on Lady Margot...

CrowGirl 5 hours 52 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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