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Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana

Historical Fiction

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George Washington Cable - Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana

This is a gentle, delightful story of life and love on the bayoux of Acadian Louisiana during the latter half of the 19th century. Bonaventure is a Creole raised among the Acadians. He loves learning, and through his...

Jacquerie 9 hours 54 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Short Stories

This is a collection of short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist and short story writer. (Summary by sidhu177)

Greg Giordano and 9 more 9 hours 23 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Charles Willard Diffin - Moon Master

Through Infinite Deeps of Space Jerry Foster Hurtles to the Moon—Only to be Trapped by a Barbaric Race and Offered as a Living Sacrifice to Oong, their Loathsome, Hypnotic God. (Summary by Charles W. Diffin)

Richard Kilmer 2 hours 40 minutes

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Drama

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Israel Zangwill - Melting Pot

Russian-Jew David Quixano has come to America after surviving a pogrom which has killed his family. He has written a symphony which embodies his vision of America as a melting pot, into which people from all the...

TriciaG 4 hours 9 minutes

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Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a «a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed...

David Wales 5 hours 15 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Little Nugget

Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip proposed by Mountry, despite her ex-husband having won custody of the boy. As...

Mark Nelson 8 hours 3 minutes

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Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading)

The last of the famous «Scarlet Pimpernel» books, the «Triumph» tells the story of the final confrontation between the Scarlet Pimpernel and his nemesis, Chauvelin. Set at the end of the Reign of Terror, the fortunes...

10 hours

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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has...

Arnie Horton and 5 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Lily Dougall - Mermaid

"'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid life into the land of dreams.' For it must all have been a dream—a sweet,...

Barry Eads and 13 more 7 hours 49 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Christmas at Thompson Hall

«A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale»; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor injuries, embarassment, and Trollope's usual 'nice' social interactions. (Summary by...

Arnold 1 hour 48 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko - Peasant Tales of Russia

Collection of Russian peasant tales: «The Deserted Mine» — The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. «Mahmoud's Family» — Escaping prisoners of war should be...

Kevin W. Davidson 4 hours 2 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Henry Handel Richardson - Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various...

Kirsty Leishman 7 hours 6 minutes

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