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Baroness Emma Orczy - Emperor's Candlesticks

When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agreed to convey some hollow candlesticks from the Emperor to the Princess...

Kevin Green 4 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

424

E. Phillips Oppenheim - Pawns Count

«I am for England and England only,» John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. «I am for Japan and Japan only,» Nikasti, the Jap, insisted. «I am for Germany first and America afterwards,» Oscar Fischer, the...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

424

Louis Joseph Vance - Lone Wolf

The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made...

William Tomcho and 6 more 8 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

406

John Buchan - Mr. Standfast

This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to...

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 52 minutes

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Plays

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Upton Sinclair - Machine

Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the stage reflected the same progressive viewpoints found in his other writing. In...

1 hour 39 minutes

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General Fiction

487

Stendhal - Red and the Black, Volume I

Stendhal — a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't...

Sandra Luna and 7 more 9 hours 12 minutes

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Romance

425

Louisa May Alcott - Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power

Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember that her heroine Jo wrote racy novels before turning her hand to more «serious» literature. Alcott, writing under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, often did the same,...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 8 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

427

William Le Queux - Four Faces

Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a discussion regarding a man named Gastrell. Gastrell is somewhat of a mystery...

Tom Weiss 9 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

445

Henry Brooks Adams - Democracy - An American Novel

Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great acclaim in 1880. Though the book avoids dates and the characters are...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 16 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Leni and 15 more 11 hours 50 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

503

Katherine Cecil Thurston - Masquerader

The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other, The Gambler, is also in the Librivox collection). The Masquerader is part...

Tom Weiss 9 hours 16 minutes

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Detective Fiction

476

Meredith Nicholson - Port of Missing Men

Shirley Claiborne is fascinated by the tall handsome man named John Armitage who seemed to follow her and her brother, Captain Claiborne, as they traveled around Europe. Count von Stroebel had urged Armitage to do...

MaryAnn 7 hours 50 minutes

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New

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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