Ruth Golding

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Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lafcadio Hearn - Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs

Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collection are widespread: There are old ghost stories Hearn is best known for (The...

Scott Carpenter and 8 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Arnold Haultain - Hints for Lovers

«Hints for Lovers» is a thorough analysis of relationships between men and women, about everything that lovers should know, and delves deep into the psychology of men and women, and the philosophy of courtship,...

Jennifer Stearns and 8 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)

The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemistry, whose personal life has been marred by sorrow and, he feels, by...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 13 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

430

Wilkie Collins - House to Let

A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 12 minutes

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Family Life

429

Charles Dickens - Chimes

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the «Hungry Forties», a time...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 11 minutes

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Family Life

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Charles Dickens - Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2)

The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Plummer, his beloved blind daughter Bertha, and the harsh old toy merchant...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 54 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

452

Arthur Graeme West - Diary of a Dead Officer

Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West's...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 43 minutes

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Language learning

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Percival Leigh - Comic English Grammar

This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author,...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 38 minutes

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Family Life

485

Fireside Christmas Short Stories

A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection is unique: some make us pause to consider the meaning of Christmas, others...

Lynne T and 11 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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F. Anstey - Tourmalin’s Time Cheques

Peter Tourmalin is on a sea voyage back home to England from Australia, to return to his fiancee, and he is very bored. The fact that the time difference adds on extra hours to his boredom only makes it worse. So...

Ruth Golding and 2 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Family Life

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John Leighton - Christmas Comes but Once a Year

A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), and poor Soavo Spohf, organist of St. Stiff the Martyr, gifted in musical...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 9 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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