Published 1900 onward

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Louis Tracy - de Bercy Affair

A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. Circumstances lead Scotland Yard to several suspects, including her wealthy...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 52 minutes

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512

Gertrude Stein - Three Lives

Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealthy, or those who seem to be wealthy. She finds herself taking on...

KHand and 3 more 7 hours 50 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

467

1916: First Chapters Collection

These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. —...

John Burlinson and 9 more 14 hours 5 minutes

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Romance

476

Porter Emerson Browne - Fool There Was

Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young...

Roger Melin 5 hours 39 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

436

Irving Bacheller - Silas Strong

Per the author: «The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman's view-point, the play of great forces which have been tearing down his home...

Roger Melin 8 hours 11 minutes

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438

Mary MacLane - My Friend Annabel Lee

Published in 1903, this selection of dialogues by Mary MacLane entails a mystery of wondering who she is speaking with. Is it the statue she describes at first? Is it an imaginary friend? Is it the author’s alter-ego?...

Daryl Wor 3 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

454

Albert Bigelow Paine - Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods

While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack...

Roger Melin 6 hours 3 minutes

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450

John Galsworthy - Patrician

The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she is not a widow as everyone supposes, but that her husband is still alive and...

Simon Evers 9 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

418

William MacLeod Raine - Tangled Trails

The aptly titled «Tangled Trails, A Western Detective Story» takes the listener through a web of curious incidents revolving around the murder of a prominent man in Denver. Kirby Lane was quite obviously the guilty...

Roger Melin 8 hours 43 minutes

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Children's Fiction

416

Covington Clarke - Aces Up

A crack American flying troop has been sent to France, where they await further instructions. They are concerned that their extensive talents will not be put to good use in the war. Major Cowan introduces Lt. McGee as...

Bill Boerst 5 hours 57 minutes

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Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Published 1900 onward

462

Honoré de Balzac - Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness , is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginning with a flirtatious conversation at a masked ball, Balzac introduces his two...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 46 minutes

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Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Action & Adventure Fiction

419

Charles Watts Whistler - Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Troy, Athens, Rome… each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world. Havelok the Dane probably derives from a folk-tale, orally passed...

Tony Foster 8 hours 56 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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