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Gladiator

Read by Mike Pelton

Philip Wylie

Gladiator by Philip Wylie is the story of a man who although normal in all other ways, through the genius of his Father a biologist attains …

The Journal of Julius Rodman

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Edgar Allan Poe

The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized M…

Chapter IV

In The Time Machine (Version 4)

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H. G. Wells

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two featu…

Between Two Tyrants

In The Ocean Waifs

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Thomas Mayne Reid

"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon …

Chapter 29

In Cutlass and Cudgel

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George Manville Fenn

Based around the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a tale of smuggling in the early 19th century off the coast of Wessex. The midshipma…

Digging with Dynamite

In Marvels of Scientific Invention

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Thomas W. Corbin

This is a chronicle of the 19 most interesting inventions of the early 20th century. Some of the inventions are still in use and of consider…

48 - Dissolution

In Mary Marston

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George MacDonald

Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

Preface

In Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

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Allen H. Godbey

"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment…