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Chapter 15

In The Humbugs of the World

Read by Eddie Winter

P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

Book 2, Chapter 3

In Arachne

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Georg Ebers

Ledscha, living in ancient Egypt, has lost her betrothed and all hope of love. But the gods see otherwise. She now loves a Greek sculptor, w…

03 - Mother Roundabout's Daughter

In The Fairy Ring

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Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…

Book Two - IV - A Wager and how decided

In In Search of the Castaways

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Jules Verne

The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself …

11 Vol 1, Ch 10

In The Last Man

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Mary Shelley

The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a futu…

A Voyage Over the Pole

In A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

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James DeMille and James De Mille

"A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" is the most popular of James De Mille's works. It was serialized posthumously in…