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The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments

Read by Phil Benson


Walter Ferdinando Grew


From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry se…

The Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2)

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Oscar Wilde


To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with…

The Biography of a Grizzly (version 2)

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Ernest Thompson Seton


Wahb (meaning White Bear) is an orphaned Grizzly Bear who learns to respect his fears, fight for peace, and trust the healing powers of a st…

Lorelei of the Red Mist (Version 2)

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Leigh Douglass Brackett


Published in Planet Stories in 1946, this story is a great mix of Golden Age Sci Fi and Swords & Sorcery. The first half was written by…

The Roots of the Mountains

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William Morris


The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third w…

War-Lords of the Moon

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Linton Davies


Bruce Ross, on the Earth-Moon run, asked a simple question, "How are the stars behaving, Harry?" But Harrell Moore could only sta…

Short stories (Early works 1837-1852)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her sho…

Gray Lensman

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E. E. “Doc” Smith


Kimball Kinnison becomes a Gray Lensman. This name comes from the simple gray leathers these superior lensmen wear that has no insignia of…

Witch of the Demon Seas

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Poul William Anderson


"Guide a black galleon to the lost, fear-hauntedCitadel of the Xanthi wizards—into the very jaws of Doom? Corun, condemned pirate ofCon…

Citadel of Lost Ships

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Leigh Douglass Brackett


"It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell, outcast prey of theCo…

The Disciplinary Circuit

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Murray Leinster


The Disciplinary Circuit is watching you. Always watching that your thoughts are correct and pure. The Council want only what is best for …

Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (version 2)

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!And if you don't like dogs I don't know just what to advise you to do!For I warn yo…

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A governess comes to Sherlock Holmes for advice on an offer of a excellent position with a new employer. But the conditions are odd and exp…

Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the Nort…

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Robert Burrows


An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 184…

The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

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Anonymous


This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so h…

The Confessions of a Daddy

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Ellis Parker Butler


The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live q…

Lancashire

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Francis Archibald Bruton


The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…

Songs of a Sourdough

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Robert W. Service


Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon…

Silver Blaze

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A famous race horse disappears a week before an important race; the trainer is found dead on the desolate moor and the police are completely…

Terror Out of Space (Version 2)

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Leigh Douglass Brackett


"An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad…

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