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The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)
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Xenophon
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from bi…
The Tales of Mother Goose
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Charles Perrault
These stories were the original ones collected by Charles Perrault and published in French in 1696. You may have heard of some of them and …
Shadows in Zamboula (version 2)
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Robert E. Howard
In the dark streets of Zamboula, huge ghouls stalk the night seeking victims for their ghastly rites and feasts. Conan is passing through t…
The Hour of the Dragon (version 2)
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Robert E. Howard
This is absolutely the best Conan novel ever written in my opinion. It follows Conan when at the peak of his power as king of Aquilonia, he…
Handy Mandy in Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
On many a day had Handy, the Goat Girl of Mern, pursued her goats up and down the rocky eminences of her native mountain. And never—NEVER—in…
The Creature from Cleveland Depths (Version 2)
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Fritz Leiber
The Cold War of the 1960s has grown warmer and warmer over time until, at this time in the future, it is a very hot and nasty war where Atom…
Nice Girl With 5 Husbands
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Fritz Leiber
Four quirky short stories by the talented Fritz Leiber: Nice Girl with 5 Husbands, A Pail of Air, The Last Letter and A Bad Day for Sales. …
Bobby in Search of a Birthday (version 2)
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Lebbeus Mitchell
Bobby is a little orphan boy of about 5 who discovers he has somehow lost his 'birfhday' and decides to go looking for it. This epic quest …
Candida (version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, po…
The Magical Mimics in Oz
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Jack Snow
The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking i…
A Thousand Degrees Below Zero
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Murray Leinster
The War to End All Wars has ended and the world has taken a deep breath and is trying to recover normal life in 1919. But a super Villan in…
Planet of the Damned (Version 2)
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Harry Harrison
Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once—but they were something else no…
Med Ship Man (version 2)
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Murray Leinster
Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Other…
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…
Kabumpo in Oz (version 2)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
An elephant in Oz? You bet! The tiny kingdom of Pumperdink has what no neighboring kingdom has: an Elegant Elephant in court, and his name i…
Let'em Breathe Space (version 2)
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Lester Del Rey and Lester del Rey
Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble—but in this case, the atmo…
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4)
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long…
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. T…
Lysistrata (version 3)
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Aristophanes
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…
The Dunwich Horror (Version 2)
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H. P. Lovecraft
Horror stalks the earth. There are many dimensions that coexist with our universe and, unfortunately, overlap it in very special places. T…