Phil Chenevert

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Science Fiction

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Poul William Anderson - Sensitive Man

Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. What if psychology finally enabled people to even partially control all those...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 38 minutes

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Science Fiction

510

Randall Garrett - Man Who Hated Mars

To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp—get onto a ship that couldn't be boarded—smash through an impenetrable wall of steel. Perhaps he could do all these...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 35 minutes

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Science Fiction

526

Robert E. Howard - Beyond the Black River

Conan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however. Old gods and mythical creatures are...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 34 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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Short Stories

520

Achmed Abdullah - Ten-foot Chain

True love can survive anything. Or can it? Four popular authors were lunching with an editor and the question came up: «What mental and emotional reaction would a man and a woman undergo, linked together by a ten-foot...

Phil Chenevert and 4 more 2 hours 33 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

508

Harold Gaze - Coppertop

The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also has two invisible brothers whom she created so as to not be alone while her...

Corrinne LePage and 6 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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Plays

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Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2)

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 28 minutes

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Science Fiction

515

H. Beam Piper - Slave Is a Slave

The Galactic Empire is slowly 'welcoming' into the family of civilized worlds those systems so far off in the backwater of the galaxy that they have been overlooked and ignored for the past 500 years or so. This is...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 27 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

607

Frances Alice Forbes - Saint Benedict

Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 543 or 547) is honoured by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students. Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Italy (about 40 miles (64 km) to...

DomBombadil and 6 more 2 hours 27 minutes

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Poetry

615

G. K. Chesterton - Poems

Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more (Summary by Maria Therese)

Algy Pug and 20 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Literary Fiction

480

Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (version 4)

This story, about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him, has intrigued me for many years. The translation is by Ian Johnston, not the translator...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 23 minutes

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Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland

Biography & Autobiography

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Frances Alice Forbes - Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland

Saint Columba (521 – 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in present-day Scotland. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political...

MaryAnn and 2 more 2 hours 23 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

509

Caroline Snowden Guild - Violet: A Fairy Story

A charming fairytale — with realistic touches — from the mid-19th Century.(Summary by BellonaTimes)

Phil Chenevert and 3 more 2 hours 22 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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