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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Forgotten Planet

The «forgotten» planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millennia the insects...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 6 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1

Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) «Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia.» 2.) «The Austrian Edison keeping school again» 3.) «The Canvasser's tale.» 4.) «The Czar's Soliloquy.» 5.) «English as She is...

John Greenman 2 hours 31 minutes

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Plays

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George Bernard Shaw - Widowers' Houses

This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed «unpleasant» because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences—as traditional Victorian theatre was expected to—but to...

1 hour 59 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Idiot (Part 03 and 04)

The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society....

Alia Makki and 1 more 11 hours 34 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Buster Bumblebee

Buster Bumblebee and his family move into a new home. Excitement and buzzing abound. Buster meet a strange fellow called a carpenter bee, way too many chirpy crickets, and even finds his own long lost sister. Later in...

sperryiv and 8 more 1 hour 32 minutes

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Tragedy

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Henrik Ibsen - When We Dead Awaken

When We Dead Awaken (1899) is the last play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Dreamlike and highly symbolic, the play charts the dissolution of sculptor Arnold Rubek's marriage to Maia, her flirtation with Ulfheim,...

1 hour 46 minutes

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Poetry

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Valmiki - Ramayan, Book 4

The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being...

om123 6 hours 46 minutes Ramayan (Ramayana)

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General Fiction

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Mary Hallock Foote - Touch of the Sun and Other Stories

Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the...

David Wales 6 hours 20 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Red Dust

You who have read «The Mad Planet» by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered,...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 45 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Stories of Ships and the Sea

5 Exciting short stories by one of Americas best story tellers (Summary by William Tomcho)

William Tomcho 1 hour 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Max Brand - Riders of the Silences

The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 16 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (version 5)

The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. Each story is...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 30 minutes

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