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Nature & Animal Fiction

473

Walter Alden Dyer - Dogs Of Boytown

This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information about different breeds of dogs. The author obviously likes both boys and dogs. (...

David Wales 6 hours 15 minutes

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Literary Fiction

436

Olive Schreiner - Dreams

Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earliest campaigners for women's rights. She was also very critical of British...

NoelBadrian 2 hours 25 minutes

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Single Author Collections

452

Aleksandr Kuprin - Slav Soul and Other Stories

Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling for his stories about people who are often «neurotic...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 53 minutes

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Single Author Collections

486

Joyce Emmerson Muddock - Stories Weird and Wonderful

A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter.

Colleen McMahon and 12 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

437

Eden Phillpotts - Human Boy Again

Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy And The War (1916)....

David Wales 6 hours 15 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Eden Phillpotts - Human Boy

This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite popular in its time. The author wrote two follow-up books: The Human Boy Again...

David Wales 4 hours 20 minutes

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Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories

Nature & Animal Fiction

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Walter Alden Dyer - Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories

This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)

David Wales 5 hours 58 minutes

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Detective Fiction

474

Edward H. Hurlbut - Lanagan Amateur Detective

This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco, who has the confidence of the chief of police and access...

David Wales 6 hours 29 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

493

Edwin Carlile Litsey - Race Of The Swift

This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. — Summary by David Wales

David Wales 2 hours 6 minutes

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Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories

Single Author Collections

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E. F. Benson - Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories

A collection of fourteen short stories, grouped under the headings of «Blackmailing Stories», «Spook Stories», «Cat Stories», «Crank Stories», and «General Stories». From the preface: "[S]uch readers as are in...

Zechariah Raman and 5 more 7 hours 54 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Richard Marsh - Seen and the Unseen

Is it true that people can literally be scared to death? Is it possible to photograph astral projections? What happens if you play with a pack of cards which belonged to a dead card-trickster? These and more...

Sonia 9 hours 6 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

431

Violet Hunt - Tales of the Uneasy

Nine twisty-turny tales of tragic human drama, played out in Victorian parlors, death beds and lonely country roads. This collection of Violet Hunt writings has all the requirements for short story entertainment:...

Lisa Reichert 9 hours 35 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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