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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Patti Cunningham and 14 more 11 hours 21 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Allan and the Holy Flower

Further adventures of Allan Quatermain. This is one of the 14 books that H. Rider Haggard wrote — starting with «King Solomon's Mines» — depicting the adventures of Allan Quatermain, great English hunter in the...

laineyben 11 hours 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Ivory Child

Allan Quatermain's first adventure with Lord Ragnall. (Introduction by laineyben)

laineyben 10 hours 52 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Major - When Knighthood Was in Flower

Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for...

Kara Shallenberg and 14 more 9 hours 2 minutes

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Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Pádraic Colum - Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus,...

Elizabeth Klett and 8 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sax Rohmer - Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from...

laineyben 7 hours 28 minutes The Fu-Manchu Series by Sax Rohmer

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sax Rohmer - Hand of Fu-Manchu

Further adventures of Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie as they continue their battles against the evil genius, Dr Fu-Manchu. (summary by Elaine Twiddle)

laineyben 6 hours 32 minutes The Fu-Manchu Series by Sax Rohmer

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Children's Fiction

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Carley Dawson - Mr. Wicker's Window

When twelve-year-old Chris entered Mr. Wicker's shop to inquire about a job for his friend, something about old Mr. Wicker forced him to take the job himself. Chris found himself the pupil of Mr. Wicker, not the old...

Alana Jordan and 12 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sax Rohmer - Quest of the Sacred Slipper

Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in the mysterious East. (Introduction by Laineyben)

laineyben 5 hours 9 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Allan's Wife

The story of Allan Quatermain's wife and further adventures of Allan Quatermain. (Summary by Elaine Tweddle)

laineyben 4 hours 49 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Poetry

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Thomas Hardy - Song of the Soldiers' Wives

Thomas Hardy is regarded as one of the best English novelists. His novels are heartbreaking, unconventional, sad and lyrical. He also wrote many poems. This is one of the best. This is the weekly poem for the week...

April Gonzales and 14 more 27 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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John Keats - Lines on The Mermaid Tavern

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines on The Mermaid Tavern by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 15th, 2010.

Amy Gramour and 13 more 19 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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