Fiction
The Boarded Up House
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
What is the secret of the old boarded up house? And what is the answer to the mystery of the long lost letter that is found in it? Best frie…
A Peep Behind the Scenes
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Mrs. O. F. Walton
Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz…
Last Days of Pompeii
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…
Farewell
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Honoré de Balzac
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
The Missing Bride
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E.D.E.N. Southworth
Prepare yourself for a journey, full of adventures and plot twists which will keep you guessing until the very end. This is psychological ro…
Joseph Andrews
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…
Selected Short Stories
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Stephen Crane
At the time of his death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, how…
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
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Anonymoustranslated Bye. Foxcroft, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By E. Foxcroft
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681). It is the third of the original …
The Firelight Fairy Book
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Henry Beston
One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of win…
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
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Howard R. Garis
Due to Uncle Wiggily's rheumatism being so very bad, Dr. Possum prescribes a journey to help him move around, have a change of air, and a go…
Their Yesterdays
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Harold Bell Wright
The story of a man and a woman, as they experience The Thirteen Truly Great Things of Life: Dreams, Occupation, Knowledge, Ignorance, Religi…
Ruth Erskine's Crosses
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Pansy
Third book in the Chautauqua Girls series. Written by Isabella Alden under the pseudonym Pansy.
Nigger of the Narcissus
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Joseph Conrad
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off…
The Royal Book of Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank B…
The Valiant Runaways
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Gertrude Atherton
Savage bears, a river rescue, capture by Indians, escape on wild mustangs and a revolutionary battle await the protagonists of this suspense…
The Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches
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William Clark Russell
This is a collection of short stories of mystery and romance, set at sea, in the times of the great sea voyages.
Framley Parsonage
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Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…
The Frozen Pirate
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William Clark Russell
Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fift…
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its …