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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Horror Story Collection 001

An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking...

Mark Nelson and 6 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Saint George for England

A tale written for children in 1885. It tells of a child of noble birth whose parents have fallen foul of the current royalty. He is placed in hiding and grows up with a bowyer and then apprenticed to an armourer...

Jim Mowatt and 6 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Voltaire - Candide

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never openly admitted to having written the controversial Candide; the work is signed...

Fox in the Stars and 6 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06)

*Non-fiction

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06)

This chapter starts from about 1685. James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus Corpus Act introduced, the persecution of the Huguenots and troubles in...

JemmaBlythe and 7 more 5 hours 30 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ann Radcliffe - Mysteries of Udolpho

Considered a change agent in early Gothic romance; oft-referenced in later literary works or paid homage to by such authors as Jane Austen (influential novel ready by her heroine, Catherine Morland, in Northanger...

Michelle Crandall and 28 more 32 hours 1 minute

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - King Lear

King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom among his three daughters in proportion...

3 hours 23 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous...

Nerijus and 13 more 23 hours 26 minutes

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Christianity - Biographies

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Saint Augustine of Hippo - Confessions (Outler translation)

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes...

Mark Barnes and 9 more 13 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Herman Melville - Moby Dick, or the Whale

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the...

Stewart Wills 24 hours 38 minutes

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Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading)

Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading)

Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy country that adjoins Oz, the land of Ev. There she meets Tiktok, a wind-up...

Paul Harvey 4 hours 17 minutes

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Animals

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Helen M. Winslow - Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others

«I have known, and loved, and studied many cats, but my knowledge of her (Pretty Lady, a cat) alone would convince me that cats love people--in their dignified, reserved way, and when they feel that their love is not...

Patricia Oakley and 1 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan (version 2)

In both the play and the novel, Peter often visits the «real world» of London to listen in on bedtime stories told by Mary Darling to her children. One night, Peter is spotted, and while trying to escape, he loses...

Layna and 5 more 4 hours 50 minutes

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