Adrian Praetzellis

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Fantastic Fiction

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Algernon Blackwood - Jimbo

Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kids and adults, though parts may be too scary for younger children (who'd...

Adrian Praetzellis 5 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

588

John Buchan - Thirty-nine Steps

Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred...

Adrian Praetzellis 4 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

606

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha

Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey...

Adrian Praetzellis 5 hours 6 minutes

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Literary Fiction

646

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy...

Adrian Praetzellis 17 hours 52 minutes

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Historical Fiction

549

שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem - Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)

Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village — the world of my...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

546

Amy Levy - Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but unexeptional family. But without Reuben, a woman like Judith might have a bleak...

Adrian Praetzellis 4 hours 2 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Ghost Story Collection 004

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles...

Adrian Praetzellis and 7 more 4 hours 5 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Children's Fiction

522

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (version 2)

A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog,...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure

594

Rudyard Kipling - Kim

Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling fashion) highly moral Anglo-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed the “the Great...

Adrian Praetzellis 13 hours 8 minutes

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Detective Fiction

508

Israel Zangwill - Big Bow Mystery

It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says,...

Adrian Praetzellis 5 hours 5 minutes

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Action & Adventure

535

Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass (version 2)

The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a...

Adrian Praetzellis 3 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

514

Israel Zangwill - King of Schnorrers

Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of late 18th-century London. Manasseh is far from being a humble panhandler for,...

Adrian Praetzellis 4 hours 25 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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