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The Father, by William Dean Howells

In The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

Read by Tom Lennon


William Dean Howells(1837-1920) and William Dean Howells


A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage…

Book 3, Chapter 8

In Anna Karenina, Book 3

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Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

06 - Chapter VI

In Aurora Floyd

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…

02 - Toby Runs Away From Home

In Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

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James Otis


Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new e…

16 - Seddon's Greed of Gold

In Survivors' Tales of Famous Crimes

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Walter Wood


In this anthology of true crime tales, editor Walter Wood interviews those who were touched by the crimes recounted, sometimes as an acquain…

45 - Chapter 45

In The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

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Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain


The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in po…

Chapter 44

In Robbery Under Arms

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Rolf Boldrewood


A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight.To quote the author "tho…

On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

Read by Frank Lennon


Samuel Gamble Bayne


This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…

The Sea Wolf

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Jack London


The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies…

The Chessmen of Mars

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


The Chessmen of Mars is a science fiction novel by the mental sword and physical pen wielding author Edgar Rice Burroughs. It the fifth inst…

The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair


It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better…

The Four Faces

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William Le Queux


Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a …

The Czar's Spy

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William Le Queux


William Le Queux was a British novelist and prolific writer of mysteries. Indeed, mystery surrounds the author himself as to whether he was …

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

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Jack London


This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 an…

The Escaping Club

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A. J. Evans


Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…

The Seven Secrets

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William Le Queux


A true “whodunit” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd i…

Of Human Bondage

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W. Somerset Maugham


Of Human Bondage, published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s li…

The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1

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Ida M. Tarbell


The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Com…

The Great Secret

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


English gentleman Hardross Courage has a good life. He has all the money he needs, enjoys sports and hunting, manages the family estate, and…