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October Vagabonds

Read by Roger Melin


Richard Le Gallienne


Richard and his friend Colin must sadly return from their distant hermitage to New York City at summer's end. However, rather than take the …

The Isle of Dead Ships

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Crittenden Marriott


There is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or, setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. Lying at our ve…

Shifting Sands

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Sara Ware Bassett


After days of fog Stanley Heath, a stranger whose power-boat runs aground on the treacherous Cape Cod shoals, stumbles into the Homestead an…

Pilgrims' Project

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Robert F. Young


Robert F. Young works in a machine shop by day, and at night goes home and writes anti-machine stories! Pilgrims' Project is different: not …

Smoking Under King William III and Queen Anne

In The Social History of Smoking

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George L. Apperson


This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing o…

Themistocles

In Famous Men of Greece

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John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland and John Henry Haaren


Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…

Ch 01-Boyhood and Youth

In Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt


In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken …

Chapter 04

In War and Peace, Book 07: 1810-1811

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Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Chapter 24

In The Alaskan

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James Oliver Curwood


A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s. Summary by Maire Rhode.

The Regeneration of the Umbrella

In Umbrellas and Their History

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William Sangster


A whimsically serious look at the umbrella and society. (summary by Clarica)

46 - The Husband Who Was to Mind the House

In Popular Tales from the Norse

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George Dasent and Sir George Webbe Dasent


The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has be…

Chapter 60

In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1

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Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest


This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampy…

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