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Science Fiction

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Fritz Leiber - Big Time

A classic locked room mystery, in a not-so-classic setting. (Intro by Karen Savage)

Karen Savage 3 hours 43 minutes

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St. John Chrysostom - Commentary on Galatians

St. Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians is continuous, according to chapter and verse, instead of being arranged in Homilies, with a moral or practical application at their close, as in his...

Jonathan Lange 4 hours 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Charles Morris - Historical Tales, Vol VI: French

Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers the history of France from the Hun invasion of Europe in the 5th century up to...

Kalynda 7 hours 52 minutes Historical Tales

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Mysterious Island (version 2)

The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of...

Alisson Veldhuis and 13 more 23 hours 23 minutes

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Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading)

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the...

11 hours 58 minutes

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Francis Archibald Bruton - Story of Peterloo

On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the meeting began, a troop of Hussars and local yeomanry rode into the crowd,...

Phil Benson 1 hour 43 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Mark Twain - In Defense of Harriet Shelley

Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the «real» Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's «Life of Shelley». Even though, as Twain writes, «Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it,...

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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General Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Rose in Bloom

Opening several years after the close of «Eight Cousins», we find Rose coming home fresh from a voyage overseas, to find much changed about her. Now of a marriageable aged and heiress to a fortune, Rose finds...

Maria Therese 8 hours 58 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Rachel Ray

The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman — wishes him to marry one of her own daughters, while Rachel's mother and older...

bobolink and 6 more 13 hours 55 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charlotte Turner Smith - Old Manor House

The proud, cruel and arrogant Mrs. Rayland never married. Therefore, «Rayland Hall», the old Manor House of the title, had to pass to their heir, Somerive, whom they never treated kindly. According to the British laws...

Elaine Webb and 3 more 24 hours 54 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift in Captivity

Tom Swift is approached by Mr. Preston, the owner of a circus, and begins to tell the story of Jake Poddington, Mr. Preston's most skilled hunter. As it turns out, Jake went missing just after sending word to Preston...

Tom Weiss 4 hours 17 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Mad Planet

It is 30,000 years following dramatically changed climate conditions on earth which had let massive amounts of carbon dioxide belch from the interior of the planet into the atmosphere. Over the millenia this would...

Roger Melin 2 hours 45 minutes

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