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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Hope Hodgson - Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'

Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. A creepy tale of nautical adventure. — Summary by Jason Mills

Jason Mills 4 hours 49 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment,...

Expatriate 11 hours 1 minute

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Andre Norton - Ride Proud, Rebel!

Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with his harsh grandfather, who despised him since his birth because of his...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 35 minutes

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How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar

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Guy Wetmore Carryl - How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar by Guy Wetmore Carryl. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project fo September 22, 2013. Guy Wetmore Carryl was an American...

Alan Rose and 12 more 38 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He...

Simon Evers 5 hours 58 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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A. E. W. Mason - Watchers

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a...

Jacquerie 6 hours 7 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Bishop's Secret

Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What...

David Wales 12 hours 41 minutes

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Shades of the Wilderness

«The Shades of the Wilderness» is the seventh book of the Civil War Series by Joseph A. Altsheler. Picking up where «The Star of Gettysburg» left off, this story continues the Civil War experiences of Harry Kenton and...

Michael Packard and 3 more 8 hours 22 minutes The Civil War Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Virginians

It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the...

Nick Bulka 39 hours 2 minutes

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Frances E. W. Harper - Iola Leroy

This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Later freed by the Union Army, she journeyed...

James K. White 8 hours 16 minutes

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Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve

On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of the novel, the Crimean War (1853-56) has already broken out. It centers on the...

Nicholas Clifford 6 hours 10 minutes

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G. A. Henty - Young Carthaginian

Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 11 hours 40 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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