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1 Nephi 17-19

In The Book of Mormon

Read by Jacob Paul Starr

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible, used by Latter Day Saints. It is a record of God’s dealings with t…

11 - Five Hundred and Sixty-sixth Night

In The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06

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Richard Francis Burton and Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

CHAPTER X - FURNITURE, TRAPPINGS, AND INVENTIONS IN MOTION

In The Art of the Moving Picture

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Vachel Lindsay

"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…

05 - Introductory Notices, part 5: Digression concerning the war-galleys of 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…

29 - At the Gates of Gomez

In Insurgent Mexico

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John Reed

In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…

Monkey on his Back

In Short Science Fiction Collection 041

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Charles V. De Vet and Charles V. de Vet

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Are You a Bromide?

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 002

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Gelett Burgess and Frank Gelett Burgess

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

22 - Mr Jabberjee places himself in the hands of a solicitor—with certain reser…

In Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

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F. Anstey

Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a different back…

Chapter I

In The Zeit-Geist

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Lily Dougall

"When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subjec…