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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

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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

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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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Anthologies

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Rudyard Kipling - Kipling Reader

These are selections of Kipling's writings; some poems, some fiction, some history but all by the master storyteller himself. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' — William the Conqueror, Part I — William the Conqueror, Part II — Wee...

Gemma L Myers and 8 more 7 hours 4 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Cradock Nowell Vol. 2

Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who, at the end of Volume 1, is...

Lynne T 8 hours 9 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Sword of Damocles

Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does indeed include several mysteries. There is a very brief appearance by her famous...

Mary Bard 16 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Daughter of the Snows

In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, «a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie,» who heads to the Yukon gold fields after creating a stir in her hometown...

Don W. Jenkins 8 hours 34 minutes

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Family Life

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Susan Glaspell - Visioning, A Novel

«The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with a charming circle of friends. Her brother is an army officer, and her uncle lives...

Sheila and 5 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading)

John Dolittle, M. D., was once a famous doctor. But then he learned to talk Animal-Language, picked up several interesting pets, and gradually began to lose his patients. Finally the only patient who remains, the...

2 hours 28 minutes

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