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Children's Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Little Book of Christmas

Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 2 hours 8 minutes

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Tenant of Wildfell Hall (version 2 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

937

Anne Brontë - Tenant of Wildfell Hall (version 2 dramatic reading)

A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the...

15 hours 56 minutes

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Christian Fiction

705

Pansy - Hall in the Grove

Fearing that her son, Robert, will grow too intellectual to relate to his parents, Mrs. Fenton starts a «Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle» in the town of Centreville. The C.L.S.C. draws in members from all...

TriciaG 14 hours 21 minutes

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Considerations on Representative Government

*Non-fiction

941

John Stuart Mill - Considerations on Representative Government

Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, including when representative government is applicable and when not. He details...

Bill Boerst 9 hours 54 minutes

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History

896

Robert F. Pennell - History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD

History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD. This compilation is designed to be a companion to the author's History of Greece. It is hoped that it may fill a want, now felt in many high schools and...

KK and 1 more 9 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure

1K

L. Frank Baum - Road to Oz (Version 2)

Dorothy and Toto set out to help the Shaggy Man (who really is quite shaggy) and end up lost, following a strange road. Along the way they meet Button Bright, a little boy who is not really very bright at all, The...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 20 minutes Oz books

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

881

Hermann Gunkel - Legends of Genesis

The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis . Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the...

JoeD 5 hours 55 minutes

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Children's Fiction

865

Arthur M. Winfield - Rover Boys on the Ocean

The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 7 more 5 hours 20 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

703

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two branches of a family with its roots in the pampas of Argentina. The wealthy...

Tony Oliva 16 hours 28 minutes

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General Fiction

880

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onéguine

Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluous men). It was published in serial form between...

MaryAnn 4 hours 26 minutes

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Religion

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Herbert J. Hall - Untroubled Mind

A very wise physician has said that “every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.” What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease....

Carol Box 1 hour 45 minutes

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Philosophy

964

Arnold Bennett - Human Machine

Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: «I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 48 minutes

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