Phil Chenevert

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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...

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Science Fiction

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Jack Williamson - Salvage in Space

This is an SF tale of excitement, danger, derring-do and strangely enough, love. A lonely and very poor asteroid miner, slowly collecting bits of metallic ore in the asteroid belt on his slowly accumulating 'planet'...

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Science Fiction

Philip K. Dick - Crystal Crypt, the & Beyond the Door

Two early science fiction stories by the wonderful craftsman, Philip K. Dick. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the war between Mars and Terra is about to erupt and earth has only merchants and...

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Science Fiction

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Harry Harrison - K-Factor

The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are still humans and remain both honorable and not so honorable; some with high...

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Science Fiction

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Donald Wandrei - Raiders of the Universes

It was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeared. They were indeed Raiders of Universes because they had ravaged many...

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Red Headed League

«The Adventure of the Red-Headed League» is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891. Conan Doyle ranked «The Red-Headed...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: «the little sea lady») is a very well known fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in...

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Science Fiction

Poul William Anderson - Chapter Ends

Far, far in the future the Earth is still spinning around the Sun, on the edge of the galaxy, dozing in obscurity, forgotten by it's trillions of progeny and completely irrelevant. But this doesn't matter to the few...

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Children's Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Story of Peter Pan

THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original play, with the approval of Barrie, and shortened it into a book with...

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Self-Help

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James Allen - As a Man Thinketh (version 4)

This book is about our thoughts and how they determine our actions and very being. A few quotes will give a good taste of the riches in this book: «A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete...

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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...

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Science Fiction

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Philip K. Dick - Defenders

The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. No living creature can now exist there and all humans on both sides, have...

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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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