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Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3

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Arthur L. Hayward - Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3

This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published...

Larry Wilson and 20 more 9 hours 43 minutes Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals

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Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Montague Glass - Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment...

Lynne T and 4 more 9 hours 43 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

Guy de Maupassant - Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne

Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to «take the waters» with her husband, described as «a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off.» But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects,...

Lisa Reichert and 4 more 9 hours 42 minutes

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

Biography & Autobiography

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

Robin Cotter and 8 more 9 hours 39 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Historical Fiction

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Guns of Bull Run

The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dangerous territory to South Carolina on a secret mission on the eve of the Civil...

Michael Packard and 6 more 9 hours 35 minutes The Civil War Series

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 071

Romance and mystery abound in this, the seventy-first collection of short stories selected and read by Librivox volunteers.

Michele Fry and 6 more 9 hours 34 minutes Short Story Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Lord Tony's Wife

Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of suspense adventure and romance. Lord Tony and Yvonne elope after some disturbing...

Ric F and 5 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Gertrude Atherton - Mrs. Balfame

Enid Belfame: 42 years old, 22 of them as a married woman; eminently respectable; founder of The Friday Club; small town dignitary; a paragon of virtue. But does she have what it takes to commit murder? And will the...

Lynne T 9 hours 32 minutes

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Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a wealthy father. She also has the knack for solving problems. This collection contains nine mysteries or problems for her to solve in an early example of...

gothicaf and 7 more 9 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Emerson Hough - Covered Wagon

«Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families.» This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oregon Trail, just before the California Gold Rush. It is the story of a wagon train bound...

Lynne T and 9 more 9 hours 26 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Warwick Deeping - Woman's War

The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the «good» Dr. James Murchison and Betty and the «bad» Dr. Parker Steele. But, of...

Lynne T 9 hours 21 minutes

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Alexander Whyte - Bunyan Characters Volume II

This is the second volume of four which goes into the details of Characters from John Bunyan's books. This one continues with the characters of Pilgrims Progress. Summary by fiddlesticks

fiddlesticks and 11 more 9 hours 21 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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