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A Moment of Time

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Richard Hughes


British author Richard Hughes is perhaps most well-known for his sea-faring adventure novel A High Wind in Jamaica, but a dive into his shor…

The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago

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Josephine Hunt Raymond


This is Ms. Raymond's thesis submitted for the awarding of her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison.) Raymond clearly k…

M J. Read 221B




Nigel Stock stars as Dr Watson, in one of his favourite and most memorable roles. Sherlock Holmes, and his arch enemy Moriarty, have disapp…

Gerry Jones Jack In The Box


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Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 19th Aug 1989, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM Jack in the Box by Gerry Jones   John is haunted …

Bible (KJV) 23: Isaiah

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King James Version


The Book of Isaiah is one of the Major Prophets in the Old Testament. Jews and Christians consider the Book of Isaiah a part of their Biblic…

The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 08 May 1896

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The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass


Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass.…

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devise…

The Awakening (version 2)

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Kate Chopin


Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …

Tact

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph…

The Story of Avis

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a ta…

Best Russian Short Stories

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Varioustranslated Bythomas Seltzer


In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th c…

The House on the Borderland (Version 2)

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William Hope Hodgson


This story helped propel 19th Century gothic fiction in the direction of “cosmic” horror. In fact, H.P. Lovecraft lists it as among his grea…

Christmas Comes but Once a Year

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John Leighton


A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 2

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Jules Verne


This volume, entitled "The Great Navigators of the 18th century", forms the second of three volumes under the general title of &qu…

My Hunt After 'The Captain'

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…

In the Pecos Country

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Edward S. Ellis


Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

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Stanley Lane-Poole


A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…

Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas De Quincey


The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…

The Nether World

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George Gissing


This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…

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