Cate Barratt

55 books

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Enchanted Typewriter

The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of the stories to the...

Cate Barratt 2 hours 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

469

John Kendrick Bangs - Toppleton's Client

A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr....

Cate Barratt 5 hours 4 minutes

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Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings

Detective Fiction

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Rose Macaulay - Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings

Henry Beechtree, a newspaper correspondent for the British Bolshevist, is covering the latest otherwise sleepy session of the League of Nations in Geneva, when the newly elected President – a member of the Norwegian...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 15 minutes

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Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4

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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot - Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King...

Sibella Denton and 6 more 15 hours 49 minutes Guizot - A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times

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Action & Adventure Fiction

497

H. G. Wells - Invisible Man (Version 2)

Cate Barratt 4 hours 38 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

456

Maurice Leblanc - Confessions of Arsene Lupin

A collection of nine stories — or confessions — of the celebrated gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 6 hours 19 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

478

A. A. Milne - Once a Week

A collection of short stories by famed Winnie the Pooh author, A.A. Milne. This charmingly humorous work from Milne's earlier writing period was first published in Punch magazine. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 7 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

484

E. W. Hornung - Thief in the Night

Gentleman thief A.J. Raffles burgles his way through a series of homes in late Victorian England. A Thief in the Night is a short story collection and Hornung's third book in the Raffles series. (Summary by Cathy...

Cate Barratt 5 hours 21 minutes Arthur J. Raffles

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General Fiction

472

Charles G. Blanden - Omar Resung

Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this convention; the French translation by J. B. Nicolas (1867), the English version by...

Cate Barratt and 5 more 2 hours 32 minutes

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General Fiction

478

John Kendrick Bangs - Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I...

Cate Barratt 3 hours 3 minutes

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Detective Fiction

432

Maurice Leblanc - Crystal Stopper

During a burglary at the home of Deputy Daubrecq a crime is committed, and two accomplices of Arsène Lupin are arrested by the police. One is guilty of the crime, the other innocent, but both will be sentenced to...

Cate Barratt 6 hours 54 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

445

Maurice Leblanc - 813

As usual, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and must find the real killer to clear his coloured name. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 10 hours 19 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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