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John Ackworth - Clog Shop Chronicles

John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the...

Phil Benson 6 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George MacDonald - Cruel Painter

This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice...

Ned Troxel 1 hour 23 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Brushwood Boy

The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream world he discovers and frequents. (Summary by Liam Neely)

Liam Neely 1 hour 32 minutes

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Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales

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Carl Van Vechten - Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales

The Lords of the Housetops reveals the cat through the creative lenses of 13 authors. Consequently, this carefully chosen collection of stories is as complex, charismatic and clever as a cat. (Summary by Amy Larch...

Amy Gramour and 7 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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Stephen Leacock - Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

TriciaG 4 hours 8 minutes

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)

General Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John...

Bob Neufeld 3 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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F. Anstey - Black Poodle and Other Tales

This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)

Joyce Martin and 1 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales

Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and...

Bob Neufeld 16 hours 59 minutes

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Herman Melville - Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's...

Bob Neufeld 1 hour 55 minutes

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Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles B. Cory - Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales

This is a collection of weird tales inspired from the natural history expeditions of the author, an independently wealthy bird collector, Olympic golfer, writer of many books on birds of the world, and, as evidenced...

T.E. McHenry and 4 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - Not Quite Eighteen

Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these...

Bridget Gaige 4 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Father Sergius

Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath it, Father Sergius struggles to find peace and, if not happiness, then at least...

James E. Carson 1 hour 55 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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