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Book Second, I

In The Ivory Tower

Read by Courtney Miller

Henry James

An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of J…

XIII

In The Rover

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Joseph Conrad

This is Joseph Conrad's last novel. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. The arrival of …

On the Way to the Tomb of Korah

In The Perfect World

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Ella Scrymsour

Almost certainly the merging of two separate magazine novellas, where Scrymsour attempted to weave together the plots. In this fantasy/ scie…

CHAPTER 5. MRS. WALKER'S OPINION

In The Amethyst Cross

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Fergus Hume

Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…

Captain Nielsen

In My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1

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William Clark Russell

Young Hugh Tregarthen has grown up in a seafaring Cornish family, but is not born to follow the family tradition. Against his mother's wishe…

Chapter 13: The Moon and Planets

In History of Astronomy

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George Forbes

An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by re…

Chapter III - At Home with Cossacks (Part 1)

In The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia

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Kellogg Durland

Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…

3 Larbourd Watch Ahoy

In Kangaroo

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D. H. Lawrence

"Kangaroo" is the nickname of a character in this novel, Benjamin Cooley, who was a charismatic leader in the fascist movement of …