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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. London lawyer Utterson is driven to investigate Edward Hyde, the unlikely protégé of his...

David Barnes 3 hours 8 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Family

895

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Story Girl

The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise, Canada. Along with various cousins and other soon-to-be-friends, they meet...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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James Fenimore Cooper - Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist...

Gord Mackenzie and 13 more 16 hours 44 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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Joseph Conrad - Secret Agent

The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers...

Hugh McGuire and 11 more 9 hours 53 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Road to Oz

The Road to Oz takes Dorothy and her friends on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honor of Ozma's birthday. It all starts near her home on Uncle Henry's farm in Kansas when she tries to help a shaggy stranger...

Kara Shallenberg 4 hours 45 minutes

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General Fiction

968

Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice,...

Marlo Dianne and 6 more 17 hours 35 minutes

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Four Million

Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime....

Marian Brown 5 hours 31 minutes

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Romance

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate...

Tina Tilney and 19 more 16 hours 3 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Leon Trotsky - From October to Brest-Litovsk

This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out of the First World...

Rebecca Dittman 4 hours 1 minute

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Animals & Nature

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Beatrix Potter - Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great...

Kara Shallenberg and 15 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

717

M. R. James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories...

Peter Yearsley 10 hours 6 minutes

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