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In Short Poetry Collection 020

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John Donne


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 020: a collection of 20 public domain poems.

Chapter LXXXIII - The Hand of God

In The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2)

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Alexandre Dumas


The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just bef…

Chapter XIV - The Limits of Philosophical Knowledge

In The Problems of Philosophy

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Bertrand Russell


The Problems of Philosophy is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focus…

Part 1, Chapter 20: Between the Two Men

In Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

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Jules Verne


First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. …

A Christmas Carol (version 05)

Read by Kyle M.


Charles Dickens


The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. B…

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written…

The Haunted Bookshop

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Christopher Morley


Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the…

The Fairy Tales of Science

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John Cargill Brough


This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science…

Night and Day

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Virginia Woolf


Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…

The Old Man in the Corner

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Baroness Emma Orczy


Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…

The Sorceress of the Strand

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L. T. Meade


From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it so…

The House of a Thousand Candles

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Meredith Nicholson


A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…

The Sheridan Road Mystery

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Paul Thorne and Paul Thorneandmabel Thorne


A shot rings out in the middle of the night in a quiet Chicago neighborhood. Patrolman Murphy is directed to an apartment where a man says …

The Fortieth Door

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Mary Hastings Bradley


A young American archeologist, a masked ball in Cairo, an illusive young woman and the unexplained disappearance of a Frenchman fifteen year…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Neilson Translation)

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The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Bywilliam Allan Neilson


Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…

The Crevice

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William J. Burns


The sudden death of wealthy and prominent financier, Pennington Lawton from an apparent heart attack, followed by the shocking revelation of…

Miss Frances Baird, Detective

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Reginald Wright Kauffman


The Red Seal

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Natalie Sumner Lincoln


Nothing is what it seems to be as events unfold in this entertaining mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Red seals and red herrings abound a…

The Eye of Osiris

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R. Austin Freeman


The Eye of Osiris is an early example from the Dr. Thorndyke series of detective stories written by R. Austin Freeman. In these stories, th…