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In Is He Popenjoy ?

Read by Rebecca Thomas


Anthony Trollope


Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…

CHAPTER V: WORLD STORIES

In The Little House in the Fairy Wood

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Ethel Cook Eliot


A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature…

36 - Six Hundred and Thirty-fifth Night to Six Hundred and Thirty-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…

Part 2. The Emancipatrix. Chapter 9. FOUND!

In The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix

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Homer Eon Flint


In the Devolutionist, space travelers experiment with Venusian methods of telepathic space travel. They leave our solar system to discover a…

The Stratfordian View, part 7

In Shakespeare Identified

Read by Rebecca Thomas


J. Thomas Looney


That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…

Part 1. Chapter 6-Part 2

In Omega: The Last Days of the World

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Camille Flammarion


Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mo…

The War of the Worlds (version 2)

Read by Rebecca Dittman


H. G. Wells


War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number …

From October to Brest-Litovsk

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Leon Trotsky


This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…

The Adventures of Ulysses

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Charles Lamb


Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…

Woyzeck

Read by Thomas Rappel


Georg Büchner


Woyzeck ist ein Dramenfragment des deutschen Dramatikers und Dichters Georg Büchner. Büchner begann vermutlich zwischen Juni und S…

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

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James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory


The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book—now long out of print—which was written by me t…

In the Pecos Country

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Edward S. Ellis


Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…

Badge of Infamy (version 2)

Read by Thomas Rose


Lester Del Rey


Set in the early 22nd century: Dr. Daniel Feldman, stripped of rank and status and named pariah for violating Medical Lobby rules, stows aw…

Common Sense, How to Exercise It

Read by Thomas Rose


Yoritomo Tashi


One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…

The Cave In the Mountain

Read by Thomas Rose


Edward S. Ellis


Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…