Lee Smalley

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Political Science

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H. G. Wells - Washington and the Riddle of Peace

As an observer at the WASHINGTON CONFERENCE FOR THE LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS held in 1921 and attended by the victorious nations of The Great War, the acclaimed author H. G. Wells wrote 29 short essays that were...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 3 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

552

Guy de Maupassant - Pierre & Jean

This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the younger brother. Pierre, the protagonist, is puzzled, jealous, and...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

577

Johan Bojer - Power of a Lie

Norby is requested to guarantee a bank loan for Wangen and he obliges, signing the loan document in the presence of a witness. Some time later the witness dies. Years after that Wangen defaults on the loan, requiring...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 41 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

574

John Peter Toohey - Fresh Every Hour

This book is best described by its subtitle: “DETAILING the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of one Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

430

Fred M. White - Doom of London

Here are six stories, each one describing a disaster afflicting London, that were popularly serialized during 1903-1904 in Pearson’s Magazine. The tales depict (1) a deep freeze and unprecedented snowfall; (2) a...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 27 minutes

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Detective Fiction

516

Anna Katharine Green - Doctor Izard

The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one of them. The story then shifts to another town where, years earlier, Polly...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 1 minute

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Single Author Collections

465

Aleksandr Kuprin - Slav Soul and Other Stories

Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling for his stories about people who are often «neurotic...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 53 minutes

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Psychology

513

Wilhelm Stekel - Depths of the Soul

Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud’s earliest followers. This title, originally published in 1921, was the author’s favorite of his own work. Covering a variety of topics he...

Lee Smalley and 11 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

586

Earl Derr Biggers - Inside the Lines

As World War I commences, a plucky young American woman in Europe on a business trip begins to realize that she may have remained too long. She and others anxious to leave for home are caught up in events swirling...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 31 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

470

Joseph Patterson - Rebellion

Cinematic in style and rich in characterization, this novel is set in early 20th century Chicago – in a barroom, at home, and in the workplace. An alcoholic convinces himself of the reasonableness of “just one drink”....

Lee Smalley 6 hours 41 minutes

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Romance

489

Booth Tarkington - Flirt

Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with Cora’s discarded and would-be beaus. Her flirtatiousness annoys the...

Lee Smalley 8 hours 3 minutes

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War & Military

463

John Bernard Pye Adams - Nothing of Importance

Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experienced: the living conditions and duties of officers and “Tommies” (enlisted men)...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 58 minutes

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New

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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