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Paradise Lost
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to r…
A Princess of Mars
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a …
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
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Mary Shelley
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…
The Gods of Mars
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant sav…
The Warlord of Mars
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this third installment of the adventures of John Carter on Mars, our hero labors under sentence of death (for having returned from the la…
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
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George MacDonald
An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just…
The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser
Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illu…
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter's son, Carthoris, falls in love with his father's true friend, Thuvia of Ptarth, but she has been promised to another and is kid…
The Chessmen of Mars
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tara of Helium, John Carter's second child, is nearly as beautiful as her mother, Deja Thoris, and as independent-minded as her father. Thes…
Fifty-One Tales
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Lord Dunsany
Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagi…
The Master of Ballantrae
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advis…
The Moon Maid
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sabotage accidentally takes Earth's first manned interplanetary expedition to the Moon, where a sublunar adventure ensues, involving two int…
Paradise Regain'd
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John Milton
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…
The Sea Lady
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H. G. Wells
A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the English coast. Her motive,…
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This final volume of detective stories was Doyle’s effort to put his most famous creation behind him at long last. It includes a variety of …
Areopagitica
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John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
Balder Dead
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Matthew Arnold
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…
The History of Britain
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John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
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