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Unaddressed Letters

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Frank Athelstane Swettenham, Anonymousandfrank Athelstane Swettenham and William James Mcglothlin


“I had a friend who loved me;” but he has gone, and the “great gulf” is between us. After his death, I received a packet of manuscript with …

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

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Pádraic Colum


This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Gol…

Märchen

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Hans Christian Andersen


Angelehnt an dänische, deutsche und griechische Sagen und historische Begebenheiten, dem Volksglauben verbunden und inspiriert von lite…

An Amiable Charlatan

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…

Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time

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JJ Semple


JJ Semple doesn’t just wake up one day and say to himself, “I’m going to crack the coded mysteries in The Secret of the Golden Flower.” He s…

My First Book

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This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…

Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-leaves

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James Branch Cabell


Would-be author of romance Gerald Musgrave, southern gentleman and member of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America…

Paved With Gold

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Augustus Mayhew


The expressed goal of this book is to "write a truthful account of the miseries of criminal life" (from the preface). Thus, this b…

Just Stories: The Kind That Never Grow Old

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Winfrid Herbst


Good Books are wise counselors. They point out the right way in the devious paths of life. Have we not often stood at the juncture of two ro…

The Broad Highway

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John Jeffery Farnol


Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the K…

Pipefuls

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Christopher Morley


A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…

The Merchant Adventurer

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Patrick E. McLean


After countless heroes fail to overcome an evil Wizard, Boltac, humble shopkeeper, must answer the Call of Adventure and save his home and t…

The Circular Study

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Anna Katharine Green


In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…

Essays on Things

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William Lyon Phelps


William Lyon Phelps was founder of the Pundits, a secret society at Yale, noted for its collection of the wittiest and most erudite students…

Ausgewählte Märchen der Brüder Grimm

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Eine Auswahl der schönsten Märchen der Brüder Grimm.

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

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Ella Cheever Thayer


A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…

The Royal Book of Oz (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Ruth Plumly Thompson


When the professor decides to outline the ancestry of the eminent people of Oz, Scarecrow feels left out. He doesn't have a family tree - un…

The Basket of Flowers

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Christoph Von Schmid


James is the king's gardener and he deeply enjoys caring for and cultivating flowers. He teaches his daughter Mary many principles of godlin…

A Peep Behind the Scenes

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Mrs. O. F. Walton


Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz…

The Phoenix Conspiracy

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Richard L Sanders


Calvin, an intelligence operative, is sent to eliminate a dangerous traitor. But as he chases his prey across the stars, he realizes they ar…

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