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Round The Fire Stories

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—suc…

Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska

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Rockwell Kent


The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though a…

The Story of the Other Wise Man

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Henry van Dyke


You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the manger-cradle in Beth…

Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

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Katharine Berry Judson


"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…

Finn The Wolfhound

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Alec John Dawson


Dawson published over thirty books, the one best remembered today probably being the animal adventure story Finn the Wolfhound (1908)…. Hi…

A Cruise in an Opium Clipper

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Lindsay Anderson


Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. It was the subject of an 1891 book, A cruise in an opium clipper, by Captain Lindsay Anderson. …

Lanagan Amateur Detective

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Edward H. Hurlbut


This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper…

The Measure Of A Man; A Tale Of The Big Woods

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Norman Duncan


A tale of a singular man at work among lumber-jacks. Duncan's droll style and tongue-in-cheek viewpoint keep the reader and listener much en…

Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches

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Unknown


"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…

The Case Of The Registered Letter

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Augusta Groner and Auguste Groner


A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)

The Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems

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Kahlil Gibran


Two short books by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and mystic. Reflections on existence and life, purpose and meaning. His most famous w…

Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Bo…

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M. R. James


M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are a…

A Christmas When The West Was Young

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Cyrus Townsend Brady


Babies, new life, a bitter winter blizzard, death circling. How will it all end? (David Wales)

Henry Wirz, Commander of Andersonville Confederate Prison: Trial and Execution

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United States Army Staff Judge Advocate


Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was the only Confederate soldier tried after the end of the American Civi War. He was tri…

Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott


Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales

Codename Vengeance

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David Wright


When an American pilot on loan to the RAF shoots down three British spitfires in his own squadron, and then crash-lands at a German airbase …

Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. Th…

Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas

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Catherine Crowe


Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. "It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north o…

A Changed Man And Other Tales

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Thomas Hardy


Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales

Members of the Family

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Owen Wister


Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

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