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Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice

The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is to reach the...

jciesielski and 3 more 4 hours 54 minutes

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H. De Vere Stacpoole - Beach of Dreams

Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow hands must climb a mast of the three-master to control a rigging gone astray....

Lynne T and 5 more 7 hours 54 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Moorland Cottage

«Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to her wish to marry Frank and live for herself. Maggie's plight for independence...

Lynne T and 6 more 4 hours 30 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (Version 4)

This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a room at his inn and later dies. The map spreads its ill luck to all who know...

Mark F. Smith 7 hours 34 minutes

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Herman Melville - Redburn: His First Voyage

Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head was filled with dreams of foreign travel and adventure. In Redburn, the...

James K. White 12 hours 36 minutes

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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has...

Arnie Horton and 5 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Barr - In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories

Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific...

David Wales 6 hours 37 minutes

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Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym . In it, Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling vessel and...

Ernst Pattynama and 14 more 11 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Outcast Of The Islands

An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vigar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable,...

Tom Weiss 10 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904

Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first half of the twentieth century. Her writings, frequently set in Prince Edward...

Andee and 14 more 5 hours 12 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Mutiny of the Elsinore

This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of “wooden ships and iron men” are long over. The Elsinore...

Tom Crawford 12 hours 29 minutes

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Harry Collingwood - For Treasure Bound

For Treasure Bound is one of the earlier novels by Harry Collingwood (William Joseph Cosens Lancaster), published in 1897. We follow the hero, whose name is incidentally also Harry Collingwood, on a quest to the...

Adrian Wheal and 5 more 10 hours 14 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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