Adrian Praetzellis

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Short Stories

486

Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה)

A collection of 48 wonderful English language stories from Sholem Alechem, I. L. Perez, Shalom Asch, and others. Tales of humour and drama, tragedy and pathos set mostly in the Jewish communities of 19th-century...

Adrian Praetzellis 18 hours 15 minutes

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Literary Fiction

648

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

548

Frederick Marryat - Mr. Midshipman Easy

One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of Jack Easy, a son of privilege who joins the Royal Navy. The work begins as a...

Adrian Praetzellis 16 hours 17 minutes

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Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

Family Life

556

Samuel Gordon - Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' commitment to improving the lives of working class people leads them to...

Adrian Praetzellis 16 hours 5 minutes

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Historical Fiction

496

Israel Zangwill - Children of the Ghetto

In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices of transplanted eastern European Jews against the forces of assimilation....

Adrian Praetzellis 15 hours 17 minutes

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Action & Adventure

595

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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Nature

450

Joseph Smeaton Chase - California Coast Trails

In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Mexico to Oregon. On the way he is courteously received at isolated ranches,...

Adrian Praetzellis 10 hours

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Published 1900 onward

540

H. G. Wells - History of Mr. Polly

A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes everything. H.G. Wells’ early life as the son of a semi-insolvent...

Adrian Praetzellis 9 hours 8 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

554

H. De Vere Stacpoole - Blue Lagoon

Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most popular work. Parents who may have seen the Hollywood film need not be...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 38 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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Children's Fiction

523

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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Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

Humorous Fiction

496

William Combe - Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

“To bury these, to christen those, And marry such fond folks who chose To change the tenor of their life And risk the matrimonial strife.” This was the humdrum life of Dr. Syntax before he set out on his...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 23 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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