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Action & Adventure Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Island Queen

The story of Dominic, Otto and Pauline Rigonda, three siblings who are blown onto an island after being shipwrecked, and are later joined by the immigrant passengers and crew of a ship that is wrecked on the same...

Rachel and 3 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Willard Diffin - Astounding Stories 13, January 1931

This issue contains «The Dark Side of Antri» by Sewell Peaslea Wright, «The Sunken Empire» by H. Thompson Rich, «The Gate to Xoran» by Hal K. Wells, «The Eye of Allah» by C. D. Willard, «The Fifth-Dimension Catapult»...

Bill Boerst 7 hours 52 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

880

Leo Tolstoy - Childhood (version 2)

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels...

Expatriate 3 hours 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

831

Ellis Parker Butler - Perkins of Portland

Amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions directed at a gullible and willing public. Unlike most tales of the kind, with...

Arnold 2 hours 53 minutes

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 4 - Dramatic Reading)

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 4 - Dramatic Reading)

A series of mysterious and increasingly alarming crimes are taking place across London. People are being injured, even murdered without mercy and without reason. And yet, the perpetrator cannot be found. The crimes...

Beth Thomas 2 hours 38 minutes

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Education

871

Horace Mann - Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education

Horace Mann is called The Father of the Common School and was one of the first progressive thinkers on education in the United States. His Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education , written between 1837...

Maria Kasper 37 hours 58 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Alexandre Dumas - Marguerite de Valois

A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of deceased Henry II, is the novel's protagonist set against the infamous...

John Van Stan 20 hours 34 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Frederik Pohl - Knights of Arthur (Version 2)

Pohl takes us into the future in this quirky and funny story, where the population of the United States is less than 10,000 people… total. Yes you guessed it, there was a war; but the 'clean' bombs killed people and...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 44 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Lillian Marie Briggs - Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

A few of Lincoln's most famous speeches and the Lincoln-Douglas debate make for historic reading. (summary by David O)

Denny Sayers and 5 more 2 hours 52 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs - More English Fairy Tales

«This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (English Fairy Tales) had almost exhausted the...

Jeff Dumas and 15 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

769

Sir Alfred Edward East - Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour

Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance — chapters rich with timeless oil painting advice by a master landscape artist, Sir Alfred East. East had an...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 15 minutes

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Historical Fiction

870

C. H. Robinson - Longhead: The Story of the First Fire

A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community, communication, religion, government, and social interaction — Summary by Nick...

Nick Bulka 1 hour 44 minutes

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