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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Katharine Pyle - Mother’s Nursery Tales

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like the things you see around you or learn from history books. Facts and truths...

Phil Chenevert and 16 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Alicia Stuart Aspinwall - Short Stories for Short People

This is a collection of short stories by Alicia Aspinwall. — Summary by Carolin

NarratorJenny and 12 more 4 hours 39 minutes

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Animals & Nature

Judith Gautier - Memoirs of a White Elephant

«We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. There is, therefore, nothing unreasonable in the supposition that the White Elephant...

Ed Humpal and 7 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Wilkie Collins - Rogue's Life

"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were...

acousticwave and 9 more 5 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Hunted Woman

This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins «It was all new — most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she...

Gabriela Cowan and 8 more 9 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lloyd Osbourne - Wrecker

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a...

Antony Brown and 9 more 14 hours 24 minutes

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Romance

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Wilkie Collins - Two Destinies

Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn't seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each...

acousticwave and 12 more 10 hours 9 minutes

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Single Author Collections

Susan Coolidge - Just Sixteen

A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children — and enjoyable for adults too! They vary in style — fairy tales, humorous sketches,...

Jennifer Dorr and 11 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Henry Dunbar

In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the...

Victoria P and 11 more 15 hours 38 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Pony Twinkleheels

«When Johnnie Green sent him along the road at a trot, Twinkleheels' tiny feet moved so fast that you could scarcely have told one from another. Being a pony, and only half as big as a horse, he had to move his legs...

Kimberly Krause and 5 more 1 hour 36 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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Matthew Phipps Shiel - Purple Cloud

The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator's (Adam Jeffson's) expedition to the North Pole during the 20th century on board the Boreal. Jeffson's fiancée,...

Rhajimas Holmes and 11 more 11 hours 51 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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