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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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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 5

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...

Phil Griffiths 6 hours 36 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 4

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, Anna's husband considers drastic measures to address the flagrant infidelity of...

MaryAnn 3 hours 39 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Vicomte De Bragelonne

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou...

Kristen Zaza and 16 more 20 hours 29 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Dragon and the Raven: Or The Days of King Alfred

General Fiction

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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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Children's Fiction

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G. A. Henty - At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris

The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with her children, to go to Paris as hostages. Guy Aylmer went with her. Paris...

Mike Harris 10 hours 13 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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Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril

Children's Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril

G. A. Henty was a prolific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a...

Mike Harris and 1 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities (version 3)

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of...

Bob Neufeld 15 hours 5 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2)

In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republic when the guillotine begins to be repeatedly cheated of aristocratic victims...

CaprishaPage and 16 more 8 hours 29 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

General Fiction

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Frances Milton Trollope - Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies his cowering wife into working herself to death. Shortly after giving birth to...

Anna Simon and 8 more 17 hours 26 minutes

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Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland

Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Gershom Collingwood - Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland

A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among Saxon, British and Norse rulers. Thorstein, like his father Swein before...

Phil Benson 7 hours 51 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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