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Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

General Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

TriciaG 5 hours 32 minutes

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G. A. Henty - In Freedom's Cause

Another stirring tale from the master of historical fiction set in the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace and their struggle for Scotland's independence. (Summary by Annise)

Mike Harris and 3 more 10 hours 16 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 7

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Levin, in town for Kitty’s confinement, finds himself drawn to the corruptive...

MaryAnn 4 hours 20 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Action & Adventure Fiction

445

Rex Beach - Spoilers

Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he...

Tom Weiss 8 hours 31 minutes

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General Fiction

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G. A. Henty - One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo

A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle — Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)

Mike Harris 10 hours 2 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 8

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vronsky leaves for the Servian war, unable to live without Anna and hoping to...

MaryAnn 2 hours 11 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War

General Fiction

490

G. A. Henty - On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War

With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the number of those engaged--as our first expedition to Burma. It was undertaken...

Mike Harris 8 hours 47 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 6

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must...

David Cole and 6 more 5 hours 53 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Rudyard Kipling - Plain Tales from the Hills

Named a «prophet of British imperialism» by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the British Raj. According to critic...

Mike Harris 7 hours 4 minutes

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Mór Jókai - Eyes Like the Sea

He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. She was his first love, this girl with the eyes like the sea. She was at heart...

MaryAnn 9 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Tiger of Mysore

During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrecked 6 years earlier, and believed to be held prisoner by the 'Tiger of...

Mike Harris 11 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Upton Sinclair - Prisoner of Morro

Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckraking novel, The Jungle</a href>, Sinclair also wrote adventure...

Tom Weiss 5 hours 30 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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