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Chapter 3

In Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger

Read by Bruce McCready


Walter Bates


Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

The Fighting Horse

In Animal Heroes of the Great War

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Ernest Baynes


This book is written by a man who loved to be around animals & birds, treating them as his friends. Published articles by him had people…

04 - James Madison

In Lives of the Presidents of the United States in Words of One Syllable

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Helen W. Pierson


This book consists of simple biographies of the first 23 Presidents of the United States written chiefly in words of one syllable. Books suc…

Is Furniture Alive?

In The Creed of a Credulous Person

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G. K. Chesterton


A series of five essays by G.K. Chesterton, published in "Black and White" magazine in 1903, under the heading "The Creed of …

The Lilliputian Forest

In The War Trail

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Thomas Mayne Reid


"Land of the nopal and maguey—home of Moctezuma and Malinché!—I cannot wring thy memories from my heart! Years may roll on, hand…

Carson City

In A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines

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Dan Dequille


This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the r…

XIII. The Draft on Paris

In The Yellow Claw

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Sax Rohmer


When a woman is murdered at mystery writer Henry Loureoux's apartment, Scotland Yard inspector Dunbar begins his investigation with a note t…

Chapter Seventeen

In The Three Commanders

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William Henry Giles Kingston


Terence, Jack, and Alick met as boys at a boarding school, and later entered the Navy together. While sailing with different ships, their pa…

The Brothers Karamazov (version 3)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized as one of the very greatest masterpieces of world lit…

The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

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Thomas Hardy


Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …

Eugénie Grandet

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Honoré de Balzac


Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would…

Cousin Betty

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Honoré de Balzac


Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his …

The Lifted Veil

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George Eliot


The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The…

Scenes of Clerical Life

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George Eliot


Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fictio…

Father Goriot (version 2)

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Honoré de Balzac


Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Pa…

The Man from Glengarry

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Ralph Connor


With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth C…