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The Mysterious Island

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jules Verne


A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Vi…

Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens


This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…

The Communist Manifesto (version 2)

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Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx


The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)

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Mark Twain


In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on th…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…

The Swiss Family Robinson

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Johann David Wyss


The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the r…

Tarzan of the Apes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughs’ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands o…

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

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Arnold Bennett


"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Ben…

The Man in the Iron Mask

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Alexandre Dumas


In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal…

Robinson Crusoe (version 2)

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Daniel Defoe


Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …

Kidnapped

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Robert Louis Stevenson


David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in t…

The Time Machine (Version 2)

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H. G. Wells


Surely the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exq…

The Kama Sutra

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Mallanaga Vatsyayana and Mallanaga Vatsyayanatranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


The Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, has survived at least 1400 years as a dominant text on sexual relations between men and women. Vatsyay…

The Lone Star Ranger

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Zane Grey


Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem - called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him an…

Diary of a U-boat Commander

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Stephen King-Hall


Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…

Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2)

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Jules Verne


Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoeve…

Star Born

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Andre Norton


Andre Norton's "Star Born" pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive gover…

The First Men in the Moon

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H. G. Wells


Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, E…

The Lost World (version 2)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not …

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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Lew Wallace


Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator wh…

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