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Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende

Read by Phil Benson


Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon


Taulat de Rugimon arrives at the court of King Arthur and stabs one of Arthur's knights. Jaufry, a young and ambitious knight, sets off in p…

Short Stories (Household Words, 1854-58)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Elizabeth Gaskell published 18 short works in Charles Dickens' Household Words between 1850 and 1858. This collection follows the Librivox c…

The Vortex Blaster Makes War

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E. E. “Doc” Smith


It's the Vortex Blaster, Doc Smith's science fiction hero that has already saved the world from atomic vortices with his prodigious computin…

The Shaggy Man of Oz (version 2)

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Jack Snow


"During the past few years, several readers have written me asking: "What ever happened to the Nome King's tunnel under the Deadly…

Things Seen in Florence

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Elizabeth W. Grierson


One of the largest and wealthiest cities of medieval Europe, the home of Dante and Giotto has long been a magnet for lovers of art, architec…

A Doll's House

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Henrik Ibsen


Published in 1879, this play was a bombshell, exposing the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian like middle class marriage. The play is significant…

Captain Salt in Oz (Version 2)

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Ruth Plumly Thompson


A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or eve…

Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)

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Irvin S. Cobb


Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and th…

If You Was a Moklin

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Murray Leinster


Moklins are the friendliest aliens humans ever encountered. They LOVE humans, and want to imitate them in every way they can. And evolution…

What The Left Hand Was Doing

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Randall Garrett


The Society For Mystical and Metaphysical Research, Inc. .....It is possible that no more nearly perfect cover, no more misleading front for…

Lone Star Planet (Version 2)

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John J. McGuire and H. Beam Piper


An entire planet colonized by Texans. Can this cause problems? You becha pardner. So strap on your shootin' irons, take a shot of Superbou…

A Guide to the Lakes

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Thomas West


In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and S…

Kamakura

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Yone Noguchi


'Kamakura is nothing if she has no history, writes Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist Yone Noguchi. At the turn of the 20th century, Kama…

Lancashire Characters and Places

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Thomas Newbigging


An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…

BLAST No. 1

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Various


BLAST, edited by Wyndham Lewis and subtitled 'Review of the Great British Vortex', was the magazine of the short-lived Vorticist movement in…

Snowball (Version 2)

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Poul William Anderson


Simon's new source of power promised a new era for Mankind. But what happens to world economy when anyone can manufacture it in the kitchen …

The People of the Crater (Version 2)

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Andre Norton


Now that the latest world wide war has ended, Captain Garin, the hottest fighter pilot of the American force, is reduced to poverty and hung…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton


A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

The Shipwreck

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William Falconer


A semi-autobiographical poem in three cantos recounts the wreck of the merchant ship Britannia. Written by William Falconer, a seaman of so…

Peace

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Aristophanes


The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is t…

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