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The Four Million

Read by Marian Brown


O. Henry


Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He…

The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million

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O. Henry


Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He…

08 - How Bartholemy rested Himself

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 …

The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers

In Famous Modern Ghost Stories

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Dorothy Scarborough, compiler, Robert W. Chambers and Variousanddorothy Scarborough


An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of moder…

02a - The Haunted-House

In Three Ghost Stories

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Charles Dickens


As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm.…

Robin Hood Turns Beggar

In The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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Howard Pyle


Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…

Chapter 22

In The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)

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James Fenimore Cooper


This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

Habsburg Rule in the Netherlands

In History of Holland

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George Edmundson


The title, "History of Holland," given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province…