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A Cathedral Courtship

Read by Ric F

Kate Douglas Wiggin

An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

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Charles Dickens

The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain) is a novella …

42 - F. A. Cowperwood, Guardian

In The Titan

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

Theodore Dreiser

Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with…

The Idyl By Joseph F. Whelan

In Short Stories From Life

Read by Richard Stibbard

Various

Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…

Lesley Castle, Part 2 (Letters 4-6)

In Jane Austen's Juvenilia

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Jane Austen

Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…

Book 2 Chapter 18

In The Broad Highway

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Jeffery Farnol and John Jeffery Farnol

Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the K…

13 - Book V ch.1-14

In Commentaries on the Gallic War

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Julius Caesar and Gaius Julius Caesar

Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a…

The Jupiter Weapon

In Short Science Fiction Collection 032

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Charles L. Fontenay

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

The Hands

In Short Science Fiction Collection 033

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Richard Sternbach

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

23 - Chapter XVIII: Waverley Proceeds on His Journey

In Waverley, Volume 1

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Sir Walter Scott

Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…