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Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life

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Stewart Edward White - Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life

Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He...

David Wales 5 hours 35 minutes

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William Frend De Morgan - Somehow Good

A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady called Sally Nightingale feels responsible, and brings him home to her mother....

Helen Taylor 21 hours 57 minutes

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General

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L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

After visiting Louise, Arthur and Toodlums at their ranch in Southern California, Beth and Patsy, together with Uncle John, decide to spend the winter at an hotel in the little village of Hollywood, where they get...

Lynne T 5 hours 50 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Whirligigs

A collection of short stories. — Summary by Richard Kilmer

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 17 minutes

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941

William Alexander Gerhardi - Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

From the preface written by Edith Wharton: Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But... I read on,...

Margaret Espaillat 6 hours 50 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Colonel's Dream

In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new...

James K. White 9 hours 5 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Alec John Dawson - Finn The Wolfhound

Dawson published over thirty books, the one best remembered today probably being the animal adventure story Finn the Wolfhound (1908)…. His own dog Tynagh and her son Gareth, who was described as the largest and...

David Wales 11 hours 50 minutes

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William John Locke - Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. One day, he encounters a young girl in a London park who has escaped from a...

Simon Evers 8 hours 54 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (version 3)

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th...

Bob Neufeld 2 hours 17 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room (version 2)

Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his education at Cambridge and finally to his death in World War I. The prose...

Jesse Bordwin and 3 more 5 hours 57 minutes

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Romance

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Gertrude Atherton - Sleeping Fires

The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a young woman from the love she had found. A story rich in fashion ad feminism...

Sharon Kilmer 6 hours 5 minutes

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Romance

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Samuel Hopkins Adams - Wanted: A Husband

This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues you with the troubles and feminine woes of young Miss Darcy Cole. Being a...

Deborah Knight 5 hours 15 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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