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Henry Inman - Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life

This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These «Tales of the Trail» are based upon actual...

David Wales 6 hours 6 minutes

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Algernon Blackwood - Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

An anthology of short, chilling stories from Algernon Blackwood. They will make you start at noises in the night and wonder about your neighbors. These stories likely stem from Blackwood's investigations into haunted...

ChadH94 and 9 more 7 hours 1 minute

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Children's Fiction

559

Clara Dillingham Pierson - Plow Stories

This book tells of the important role of the plow, starting from its humble beginnings and how the plow has changed over time. This is achieved through a series of small stories set during different time periods in...

SweetHome 2 hours 58 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

560

Honoré de Balzac - Red Inn

Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. — Summary by pmstrahm

pmstrahm 1 hour 35 minutes

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Detective Fiction

583

Richard Marsh - Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life

Judith Lee is a young woman with an unusual gift, she can read lips at a distance as well as she can hear the person next to her. Her skill leads her into a number of adventures. Written by Richard Marsh (The Beetle,...

Alan Winterrowd 3 hours 48 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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William John Locke - Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

This 1912 collection of short stories is of lighthearted adventures of an irresponsible — and irrepressible — Frenchman in England and Paris. The author (1863-1930) was a popular British novelist, dramatist, and...

David Wales 7 hours 29 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

594

Eden Phillpotts - Loup-garou!

A book of short stories by Eden Phillpotts, all involving something of the supernatural. — Summary by Ann Boulais

oogiesragdoll and 8 more 6 hours 17 minutes

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Katherine Mansfield - Doves' Nest and Other Stories

The Doves' Nest and Other Stories is a collection of complete stories and fragments by the writer Katherine Mansfield. The book was published several months after the Kiwi author's death. — Summary by Rob Marland

Rob Marland and 11 more 5 hours 27 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert Hugh Benson - Mirror Of Shalott

Fourteen stories of the strange by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of stories told by a gathering of Roman Catholic clergy. Benson wrote prolifically in...

David Wales 5 hours 39 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert Hugh Benson - Light Invisible

Fifteen short ghost stories by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of an old English Roman Catholic priest telling stories to his young friend. Benson wrote...

David Wales 3 hours 39 minutes

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Eden Phillpotts - Human Boy And The War

Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fictitious village Merivale. This book, of course, has World War I as a...

David Wales 5 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

489

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts - Earth's Enigmas

Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 4 hours 28 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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