Humorous Fiction
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James Francis Thierry - Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Recorded by his Friend Dr. Watson is a parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories....
3 hours 52 minutes
Literary Fiction
785
Henry James - Beast in the Jungle (version 2)
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral essences surviving death and summoning the central character towards — well,...
2 hours 19 minutes
Medical
681
William Marcet - On chronic alcoholic intoxication : with an inquiry into the influence of the abuse of alcohol as a predisposing cause of disease
Physician William Marcet treated numerous cases of acute alcoholism (delirium tremens) and chronic alcoholism. He suggests gastrointestinal disease, gout and rheumatism are diseases associated with chronic alcoholism...
4 hours 20 minutes
Travel Fiction
915
Jules Verne - Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa
Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes the Russians enemy agents in an English colony. Summary by Kim.
5 hours 28 minutes
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