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In Insurgent Mexico

Read by Jacob Paul Starr

John Reed

In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…

The Pride of the Woosters is Wounded

In The Inimitable Jeeves

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P. G. Wodehouse

When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all …

The Hungry Death, Chapter 1

In The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

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Rosa Mulholland

This is a collection of 10 original ghost stories by Rosa Mulholland, published in 1880. Some only one section long; others spread out over …

The Story of the Siren

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 033

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E. M. Forster

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

To Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

In Letters to Dead Authors

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Andrew Lang

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

22 - Mr Jabberjee places himself in the hands of a solicitor—with certain reser…

In Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

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F. Anstey

Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a different back…

Recent Disclosures concerning pre-Columbian Voyages to America in the Archives …

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 05

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William Eleroy Curtis and National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents:Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardine…

Morphy Prepares to Start for Europe

In The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion

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Frederick Milnes Edge

Paul Morphy, born in New Orleans in 1837, was considered the greatest chess player of his era. He was a child prodigy who learned playing ch…

RUNE XI. Lemminkainen's Lament

In The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

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Elias Lonnrot and Elias Lönnrot

This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…

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