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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)

Read by Eric Leach

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doy…

The House of a Thousand Candles (version 2)

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Meredith Nicholson

A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont. His home, the House of a Thousand Candles, so called for the owner's preference t…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 4)

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Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dod…

12 - The Giant Porcupine

In The Patchwork Girl of Oz

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L. Frank Baum

An unlucky Munchkin boy named Ojo must travel around Oz gathering the ingredients for an antidote to the Liquid of Petrifaction which has tu…

Portrait of King William III

In The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

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Mark Twain

A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)

The Canterville Ghost

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007

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Oscar Wilde

A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

Chapter 169

In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

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Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest

This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…

14 - Does The Young Man Know Everything Worth Knowing?

In Idle Ideas in 1905

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Jerome K. Jerome

Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including "Should Women Be Beautiful?", "Should S…