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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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John Drinkwater - Symbols

John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke...

Algy Pug and 18 more 19 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Joris-Karl Huysmans - Là-bas

The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the...

Peter Tucker 8 hours 58 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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George Farquhar - Love and a Bottle

This play was produced in 1698 at Drury Lane Theatre. From the bustle of its plot, the variety of its incidents, and the sustained humour of its dialogue, it met with so favourable a reception that Farquhar henceforth...

3 hours 10 minutes

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Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter

Humorous Fiction

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Montague Glass - Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter

Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment...

realisticspeakers and 1 more 8 hours 30 minutes

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Animals

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Charles Holder - Half Hours With the Lower Animals

This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word «animal» with fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 90% of the animal species on earth are invertebrates, i.e.,...

Dale Latham and 5 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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Family

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Johanna Spyri - Little Miss Grasshopper

The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole family a lesson in love and faith. Summary by Devorah Allen.

Devorah Allen 55 minutes

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General Fiction

812

Charlotte Turner Smith - Celestina

Celestina was adopted by Mrs. Willoughby from a convent in France. No one knows who her parents are. Her secret birth causes problems for her in the marriage market. But this novel is not only a courtship novel. It is...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 3 more 26 hours 26 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Herman Melville - Pierre, or The Ambiguities

The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.

Naduplants and 1 more 17 hours 10 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Inimitable Jeeves

When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all was to turn to Jeeves — Bertie's Man. He understood human nature, especially...

Beth Thomas and 9 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Harold L. Goodwin - Flying Stingaree

First published in 1963, this is another adventure in the Rick Brant Science series, set on Chesapeake Bay and involving mysterious, sting ray-shaped drones and missing persons. (synopsis by Matt Pierard)

VfkaBT 4 hours 43 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Keith Laumer - Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer

For your listening pleasure, here are three stories by the ingenious Keith Laumer from the glorious days of Science Fiction in the early 1960s: A Bad Day for Vermin, The King of the City and Doorstep. They were all...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 36 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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William Le Queux - House of Whispers

This is a story about a young lady and her blind father who live in a House of Whispers. «There is a legend that those who hear the whispers die quickly and suddenly.» Story written by William Le Queux in 1910. Le...

April6090 8 hours 36 minutes

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