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In Don Quixote - Vol. 2

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Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

10 - The Story of Roc, the Brazilian

In Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2)

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Frank R. Stockton


Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts is a non-fiction, rollicking story of the origins of piracy and of the famous pirates of the coasts of …

Chapter 13, part 1-2

In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol II

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John Bagnell Bury


J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…

Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe


Edgar Allan Poe has the ability to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little w…

Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories

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H. P. Lovecraft


Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially…

The Defenders

Read by Phil Chenevert


Philip K. Dick


The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. …

Mr. Spaceship

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Philip K. Dick


The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to…

The Art of War (version 3)

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Sun Tzu 孙武


First compiled in the 6th century BC, The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted…

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

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Arnold Bennett


Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given y…

The Deeper Christian Life

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Andrew Murray


If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would you be convicted? Christians have asked themselves this question, or ones like it, for…

The Misplaced Battleship

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Harry Harrison


"It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale o…

Crystal Crypt, the & Beyond the Door

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Philip K. Dick


Two early science fiction stories by the wonderful craftsman, Philip K. Dick. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the …

The Repairman

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Harry Harrison


This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were published in Galaxy, Analog and Fantastic Universe. The Repair…

Triplanetary, First in the Lensman Series

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E. E. “Doc” Smith and E. E. "Doc" Smith


Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and…

Arm of the Law

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Harry Harrison


A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit - in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to …

Crescent

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Phil Rossi


Crescent is the last stop at the intergalactic crossroads of gritty sci-fi and pucker-inducing horror. --Scott Sigler, New York Times bestse…

Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts

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Bill Nye


Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willi…

The K-Factor

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Harry Harrison


The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are st…

Anna Karenina, Book 5

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Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the