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The Repairman

In Short Science Fiction Collection 024

Read by Linda Dodge

Harry Harrison

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Chapter 13

In The Humbugs of the World

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P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

Alfred R. Wallace, Part 1

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

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Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

18 - Indian War Days

In Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

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Ezra Meeker and Howard Driggs and Ezra Meeker

This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)

02 - Beside The Marsh

In A Florida Sketch-Book

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Bradford Torrey

This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by Bell…

Chapter 13

In Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1

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Lew Wallace

Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ "Book 1" gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1…