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Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay

War & Military Fiction

875

Frederick Marryat - Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay

Marryat was a midshipman under Captain Cochrane and this, his first naval adventure, is considered to be a highly autobiographical telling of his adventures with one of Britain's most famous and daring naval captains....

Lynne T and 7 more 15 hours 39 minutes

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General Fiction

926

Gertrude Stein - Geography and Plays

Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's «word portraits,» or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or «portraits», were designed to evoke...

Arielle Lipshaw and 16 more 12 hours 35 minutes

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Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

Detective Fiction

700

Percy James Brebner - Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Police Detective Murray Wigan in solving various crimes and mysteries in...

Tony Posante 7 hours 29 minutes

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Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

796

Henry Fielding - Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber....

1 hour 38 minutes

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General Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - New Arabian Nights

New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his best work in the genre. The first and longest story stars Prince Florizel...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 55 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

767

Algernon Blackwood - Four Weird Tales

Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature. Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery. (Summary by...

Arie and 2 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Comedy

970

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice: A Play

Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters,...

2 hours 42 minutes

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Christianity - Other

841

Martin Luther - Bondage of the Will

On the Bondage of the Will (Latin: 'De Servo Arbitrio', literally, «On Un-free Will», or «Concerning Bound Choice»), by Martin Luther, was published in December 1525. It was his reply to Desiderius Erasmus's De...

Jonathan Lange 12 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

714

Lloyd Osbourne - Ebb-Tide

Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of...

Mark F. Smith 5 hours 23 minutes

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Plays

835

One-Act Play Collection 004

This collection of twelve one-act dramas features plays by James Allen, John Kendrick Bangs, Gordon Bottomley, Charles Dickens, Lord Dunsany, Susan Glaspell, George Bernard Shaw, August Strindberg, Marion Craig...

7 hours 19 minutes One-Act Play Collections

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Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse (dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

797

Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse (dramatic reading)

Danny begins his tale regretting the length of his tail until he is corrected by Mr. Toad. Then he has a series of stalkings by Reddy and Granny Fox. He is captured by Hooty the Owl and escapes mid-flight to Peter...

1 hour 46 minutes

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General Fiction

801

Thomas Hardy - Well-Beloved

'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women — the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years. Pierston is seeking for perfection in...

Simon Evers 6 hours 28 minutes

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