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Travel Fiction

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Washington Irving - Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from «Rip Van Winkle» and «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» — the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous — other tales include «Roscoe», «The Broken Heart», «The Art of Book-making», «A Royal...

Easton and 15 more 15 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

833

William Morris - Well at the World's End

The Well at the World's End is thought to be one of the first examples of an entirely fictional fantasy world, and has greatly influenced later fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book follows...

BumbleVee and 7 more 5 hours

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Humorous Fiction

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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Barry Eads and 20 more 6 hours 54 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives

Christianity - Other

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A. E. C. Brooks - Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives

Mr. Brooks, in this compilation, has endeavored to select those incidents and practical remarks from Mr. Müller's Narratives, that show in an unmistakeable way, both to believers and unbelievers, the secret of...

David Barnes 3 hours 38 minutes

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Poetry

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G. K. Chesterton - Poems

Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more (Summary by Maria Therese)

Algy Pug and 20 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

930

Andre Norton - Storm Over Warlock, Version 2

The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 10 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904

General Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904

Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first half of the twentieth century. Her writings, frequently set in Prince Edward...

Andee and 14 more 5 hours 12 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Black Heart and White Heart

Black Heart and White Heart , is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Introduction by H. Rider Haggard)

Vira Denton 2 hours 26 minutes

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General Fiction

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Dorothy Richardson - Pointed Roofs

Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer ) termed «nous autres,» i.e., young gentlewomen who must venture forth and earn their living after their fathers...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 20 minutes

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Poetry

911

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative-poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written in 1820, it retells powerfully The Battle of Marathon: during which the Athenian state defeated the much larger...

Nathan 1 hour 54 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

810

Alice Muriel Williamson - House by the Lock

What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but...

Roger Melin 6 hours 13 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Idiot

The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their...

Gregg Margarite 2 hours 17 minutes

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