Jacob Paul Starr

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The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Rosa Mulholland - The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

This is a collection of 10 original ghost stories by Rosa Mulholland, published in 1880. Some only one section long; others spread out over 3 or 4 sections. Enjoy! Summary by Carolin

Betsy Walker and 11 more 8 hours 32 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 033

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder. You...

Steve Mann and 12 more 7 hours 6 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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George Griffith - Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science

Our narrator, a researcher, finds himself snowed in at a Scottish prison. The resident doctor, an observer of criminal psychology, offers him hospitality and entertainment in the form of this story, an account of the...

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Inimitable Jeeves

When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all was to turn to Jeeves — Bertie's Man. He understood human nature, especially...

Beth Thomas and 9 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 05

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents: Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard The Movements of our Population Rainfall Types of the...

MaryAnn and 12 more 12 hours National Geographic Magazines

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Mary Grant Bruce - Stone Axe Of Burkamukk

Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland — a part of Victoria which it is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now...

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Epistolary Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Letters to Dead Authors

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke,...

Brian Mansi and 9 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Literary Collections

John Wesley - Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series

John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. «The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last...

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Emily Dickinson - Hope

Read in English by Ann Simmons; CaprishaPage; David Lawrence; Joe Brenneman; Jason Mills; venom3071; Jannie Meisberger; Julia Niedermaier; John Sercel; Jacob Paul Starr; Lee Ann Howlett; Larry Greene; Maryanka; Maria...

Ann Simmons and 15 more 13 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Will Carleton - One and Two

This was the Fortnightly Poetry for November 10, 2013. Read in English by Alan Weyman; CaprishaPage; Drew Johnson; David Lawrence; Ernst Pattynama; Garrett Fitzgerald; Jason Mills; Jannie Meisberger; Julia...

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Literary Fiction

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Lily Dougall - Zeit-Geist

«When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subject of the following sketch. Having applied to the school-master in the town...

Jacob Paul Starr and 1 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion

Crafts & Hobbies

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Frederick Milnes Edge - Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion

Paul Morphy, born in New Orleans in 1837, was considered the greatest chess player of his era. He was a child prodigy who learned playing chess simply by watching family members play, and when he was only 9 years old,...

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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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