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Richard Harding Davis - Amateur

On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist in finding people, Mr. Ford agrees to help her in her quest. However,...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 1 minute

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Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of...

James K. White 6 hours 36 minutes

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Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

General Fiction

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Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kinetoscope technologies. These stories grew more and more popular as the public...

Scott Dawson and 14 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Children's Book of Christmas Stories

Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This book claims to be just that and nothing more. Each of the stories has already won...

Alisa 7 hours 40 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Olive Beaupre Miller - In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume...

Snapdragon and 37 more 7 hours 15 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Pádraic Colum - Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus,...

Elizabeth Klett and 8 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Twenty Two Goblins

These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a...

KirksVoice 3 hours 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Little Book of Christmas

Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 2 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

937

Anna Katharine Green - Ruby and the Caldron

A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it, but who, of the few guests, might have the jewel, and how to solve the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 9 minutes

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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Four Million (Version 2)

The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty five stories of various lengths...

Mike Pelton and 13 more 5 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

Arnold Bennett - Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands (Summary by Andy Minter).

Andy Minter 10 hours 29 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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