Phil Chenevert

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Children's Fiction

606

Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus Returns

Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original «little boy» who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. As always Uncle Remus can be relied upon to provide funny and pointed insight into...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 56 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

446

Leigh Douglass Brackett - Black Amazon of Mars (Version 2)

This gore drenched story finds Eric Stark, the barely civilized warrior raised on Mercury struggling to bring a dying Martian friend back to his home city in the North of Mars before he passes away. Unfortunately his...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

482

Philip Francis Nowlan - Armageddon- 2419 A.D.

Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an equal interest...

Megan Argo and 6 more 2 hours 55 minutes

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5)

Action & Adventure Fiction

523

Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5)

This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but we also frequently fail to follow these better instincts and follow instead...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 53 minutes

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Christianity - Other

493

H. P. Nichols - Baltimore Catechism, No. 2

A catechism is a summary of the principles of Christian religion and articles of the faith. The Baltimore Catechism specifically was the de facto standard Catholic school text in the United States from 1885 to the...

Ann Boulais and 4 more 2 hours 53 minutes

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Satire

460

George Bernard Shaw - Arms and The Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the most popular of his plays. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 51 minutes

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Animals & Nature

534

Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 2)

This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who «Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 51 minutes

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Satire

576

George Bernard Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession

.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two performances because of the profession talked about. The play is about a...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 50 minutes

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Soaked In Seaweed and 7 other nonsense novels

Humorous Fiction

468

Stephen Leacock - Soaked In Seaweed and 7 other nonsense novels

8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody gives away it's genre: Soaked in Seaweed or, Upset in the Ocean; Maddened...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 49 minutes

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Poetry

533

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Cheer

This is another volume in Ella Wheeler Wilcox's series. This time, the topic is «Cheer». — Summary by Carolin

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Humorous Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Bab Ballads (version 2)

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Red Dust

You who have read «The Mad Planet» by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered,...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 45 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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