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In Our Young Folks' Plutarch

Read by Dave Gillespie

Rosalie Kaufman

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…

19 - Captured

In Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat

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Victor Appleton

Otherwise known as 'Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure', is Volume 4 in the original Tom Swift novel series. Tom persuades his father to us…

Chapter III - The Battle of Arbela, BC 331 - Part 1

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

Part 4, Chapter 40

In The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2

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Jefferson Davis

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …

A Strange Bringing Up Part 1

In At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

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G. A. Henty

The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire t…

Book Third, Chapters 32 to 35. Concerning the island of Scotra. Concerning the …

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

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Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa

"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

A Solitary

In An Isle in the Water

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Katharine Tynan Hinkson

'Here, among the hosts of ladies who write with care and inelegance, comes a woman artist. An Isle in the Water is a collection of fifteen w…