Phil Chenevert

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Science Fiction

442

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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Essays & Short Works

550

G. K. Chesterton - Fancies Versus Fads

A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

597

H. P. Lovecraft - Dunwich Horror

Horror stalks the earth. There are many dimensions that coexist with our universe and, unfortunately, overlap it in very special places. The horrific beings that live in these other dimensions are ancient, terrifying...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 5 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristophanes - Lysistrata (version 3)

The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 39 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

555

Mark Twain - Diaries of Adam and Eve

Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. The freshness, wonder and excitement of exploring a new world permeates Eve's...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 15 minutes

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Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4)

Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4)

Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 35 minutes

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Science Fiction

418

Lester del Rey - Let'em Breathe Space (version 2)

Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble—but in this case, the atmosphere was literally poisoned. Who is trying to kill them and sabotage the...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 59 minutes

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Poetry

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Rudyard Kipling - IF

This poem is considered one of the most inspirational guidelines on how to live and act with integrity and develop a winning strategy throughout life, and the poem has garnered much attention in popular culture. The 4...

April6090 and 27 more 1 hour 4 minutes

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Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself

Performing Arts

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P. T. Barnum - Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself

The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the «Greatest Show on Earth,» P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It details his life and business struggles up to the year 1872. Not only a showman and a...

DrPGould and 13 more 27 hours 17 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Ruth Plumly Thompson - Kabumpo in Oz (version 2)

An elephant in Oz? You bet! The tiny kingdom of Pumperdink has what no neighboring kingdom has: an Elegant Elephant in court, and his name is Kabumpo. He is very proud of his kingdom, his elegance and tends to be just...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 31 minutes Oz books

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My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edric Vredenberg - My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales (version 2)

«Here they are again, the old, old stories, the very best; dear Cinderella, wicked old Bluebeard, tiny Thumbling, beautiful Beauty and the ugly Beast, and a host of others. But the old stories, I may tell you, are...

Phil Chenevert and 10 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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Family Life

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Ellis Parker Butler - Confessions of a Daddy

The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have trouble with anyone of their...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour

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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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