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John Ackworth - Clog Shop Chronicles

John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the...

Phil Benson 6 hours 52 minutes

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Family Life

859

E. M. Delafield - Consequences

Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. Raised from birth for the privileged life of a wife and mother, Alexandra...

Caroline Driggs 9 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

846

James B. Hendryx - Snowdrift

The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a...

Roger Melin 11 hours 21 minutes

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Bent Twig

Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th — early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a...

Bellona Times 18 hours 14 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Richmal Crompton - Just William

William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasing. The series of books is better known in the United Kingdom than in the U.S....

David Wales 5 hours 58 minutes

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William John Locke - Fortunate Youth

Paul is a poor boy who grew up in London, in the household of his mother and stepfather. His journey to greatness is the subject of our story. But his desired success comes at a very high price. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

DVoice and 5 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the tenth volume, 62 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Snapdragon and 13 more 6 hours 9 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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Charles Dickens - Bleak House (version 3)

The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disputed property disbursement. In Dickens’ time, some cases could take years to be...

Mil Nicholson 39 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph Hocking - Weapons of Mystery

Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire. Having no other plans, he decides to go. Though he is normally much the...

MaryAnn and 4 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Grace Johnson - Broken Rosary

County Prosecutor Wally Brighton was found shot to death one evening, a broken rosary in one hand and a .32 automatic inches away from the other. Was it murder or suicide? It takes two sharp-eyed reporters, who...

Maria Therese 4 hours 10 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is...

Bob Neufeld 6 hours 44 minutes

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - Molly Make-Believe (version 2)

Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends...

ashleighjane 2 hours 58 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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