Heart of Darkness ♦ By Joseph Conrad ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook

Heart of Darkness ♦ By Joseph Conrad ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Heart of Darkness



Author: Joseph Conrad



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Bob Neufeld



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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. In the story, Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. (Summary by Wikipedia)



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The Secret Tomb ♦ By Maurice Leblanc ♦ Crime & Mystery Fiction ♦ Audiobook

The Secret Tomb ♦ By Maurice Leblanc ♦ Crime & Mystery Fiction ♦ Audiobook



Title: The Secret Tomb



Author: Maurice Leblanc



Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Detective Fiction



Language: English



Read By; Campbell Schelp



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Summary:

Under a sky heavy with stars and faintly brighter for a low-hanging sickle moon, the gypsy caravan slept on the turf by the roadside, its shutters closed, its shafts stretched out like arms. In the shadow of the ditch nearby a stertorous horse was snoring.Far away, above the black crest of the hills, a bright streak of sky announced the coming of the dawn. A church clock struck four. Here and there a bird awoke and began to sing. The air was soft and warm. Abruptly, from the interior of the caravan, a woman's voice cried:"Saint-Quentin! Saint-Quentin!"Ahead was thrust out of the little window which looked out over the box under the projecting roof."A nice thing this! I thought as much! The rascal has decamped in the night. The little beast! Nice discipline this is!"Other voices joined in the grumbling. Two or three minutes passed, then the door in the back of the caravan opened and a shadowy figure descended the five steps of the ladder while two tousled heads appeared at the side window.



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The Jungle Book ♦ By Rudyard Kipling ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook

The Jungle Book ♦ By Rudyard Kipling ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Jungle Book



Author:  Rudyard Kipling



Genre(s): Action & Adventure



Language: English



Read By: Phil Chenevert



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This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over his avowed enemy the tiger Shere Khan. Included in the book is the story of the brave white seal, Kotick, and the tenacious young mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi who battled through the night to protect his human family from a pair of sly and viscous cobras. Packed with adventure and Jungle Law wisdom, this book has pervaded popular culture as the basis of many film and stage adaptations, including the popular Disney movie.



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The Idiot ♦ By John Kendrick Bangs ♦ Humorous Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The Idiot ♦ By John Kendrick Bangs ♦ Humorous Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Idiot



Author:  John Kendrick Bangs



Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, Satire



Language: English



Read By: Gregg Margarite



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The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you’re beneath contempt you can say what you please. – This is the first of John Kendrick Bang’s “Idiot” books and was published by Harper and Brothers in 1895. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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Shadows in the Moonlight ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full ...

Shadows in the Moonlight ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Shadows in the Moonlight



Author:  Robert E. Howard



Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction



Language: English



Groups:  Conan the Cimmerian, Conan the Barbarian



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is one of the best. Conan was raiding with the Free Companions when they were trapped and slaughtered by the merciless Shah Amurath the great Lord of Akif. Conan is one of the very few who escape by hiding in the mud of the marshes like a beast living on raw snake and muskrat. Luck, which seems to have deserted him, smiles again and allows him the chance for revenge and he eagerly seizes it, destroying his enemy with fierce strokes. Barely escaping his soldiers with the slave girl Olivia, once a princess of Koth, they reach a deserted island that holds many enchantments and strange dangers. Then the pirates arrive and things become even bloodier. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)



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The Red Hell of Jupiter ♦ By Paul Ernst ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The Red Hell of Jupiter ♦ By Paul Ernst ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Red Hell of Jupiter



Author:  Paul Ernst



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Mark Nelson



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The Red Hell of Jupiter is a short science fiction novel written in 1931 for the popular science fiction magazine Astounding Stories. In this story, what is the mystery centered in Jupiter's famous "Red Spot"? Two fighting Earthmen, caught by the "Pipe-men" like their vanished comrades, soon find out.



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Dagon ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

Dagon ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Dagon



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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Plot:

The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. In the unnamed narrator's account, his cargo ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider in "one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific".[2] He escapes on a lifeboat and drifts aimlessly, south of the equator, until he eventually finds himself stranded on "a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about [him] in monotonous undulations as far as [he] could see.... The region was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish and less describable things which [he] saw protruding from the nasty mud of the unending plain." He theorizes that this area was formerly a portion of the ocean floor thrown to the surface by volcanic activity, "exposing regions which for innumerable millions of years had lain hidden under unfathomable watery depths."[3]



After waiting three days for the seafloor to dry out sufficiently to walk on, he ventures out on foot to find the sea and possible rescue. After two days of walking, he reaches his goal, a hill which turns out to be a mound on the edge of an "immeasurable pit or canyon".[4] Descending the slope, he sees a gigantic white stone object that he soon perceives to be a "well-shaped monolith whose massive bulk had known the workmanship and perhaps the worship of living and thinking creatures."[5] The monolith, situated next to a channel of water in the bottom of the chasm, is covered in unfamiliar hieroglyphs "consisting for the most part of conventionalized aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octopuses, crustaceans, mollusks, whales, and the like."[5] There are also "crude sculptures" depicting:



men—at least, a certain sort of men; though the creatures were shown disporting like fishes in the waters of some marine grotto, or paying homage at some monolithic shrine which appeared to be under the waves as well... [T]hey were damnably human in general outline despite webbed hands and feet, shockingly wide and flabby lips, glassy, bulging eyes, and other features less pleasant to recall. Curiously enough, they seemed to have been chiseled badly out of proportion with their scenic background; for one of the creatures was shown in the act of killing a whale represented as but little larger than himself Summary by Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagon_(short_story)



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Arson Plus ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction ♦ Audiobook Short ...

Arson Plus ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction  ♦ Audiobook Short Story



Title:  Arson Plus



Author:  Dashiell HAMMETT



Genre(s): Detective Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Winston Tharp



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“Arson Plus” is the story that introduced the world to the Continental Op, the nameless detective whom Dashiell Hammett described as “a little man going forward day after day through mud and blood and death and deceit—as callous and brutal and cynical as necessary” (William F. Nolan, Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook).



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The Ideal ♦ By Stanley G. Weinbaum ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The Ideal ♦ By Stanley G. Weinbaum ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Ideal



Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Gregg Margarite



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Summary:

Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his short story “A Martian Odyssey” which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. A Martian Odyssey and its sequel are presented here as well as other Weinbaum gems including 3 stories featuring the egomaniacal physicist Haskel van Manderpootz and his former student, playboy Dixon Wells. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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Queen of the Black Coast ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full ...

Queen of the Black Coast ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Queen of the Black Coast



Author:  Robert E. HOWARD



Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Conan The Barbarian



Language: English



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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Conan finally meets his match in Belit, the fierce, bloodthirsty and scantily clad pirate Queen. She also is unable to resist the huge, blue-eyed, iron-thewed barbarian who literally sweeps her off her feet. Together they become pirates of legend and are the scourge of the Black Coast. They venture up the river of death where no one has gone in centuries and lived, in search of plunder, battle and adventure. And get more of all three than they could wish for.



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MENTAL TELEGRAPHY ♦ By Mark Twain ♦ Memoir, Narrative ♦ Full Audiobook

MENTAL TELEGRAPHY ♦ By Mark Twain ♦ Memoir, Narrative ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  MENTAL TELEGRAPHY



Author:  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)



Genre:  Memoir, Narrative



Language:  English



Read By:  Josh Mitteldorf



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Certain mental telegraphy is an industry which is always silently at work -- oftener than otherwise, perhaps, when we are not suspecting that it is affecting our thought... I imagine that we get most of our thoughts out of somebody else's head, by mental telegraphy -- and not always out of the heads of acquaintances, but, in the majority of cases, out of the heads of strangers; strangers far removed...

- Mark Twain's Autobiography



Hartford, Conn., October 4, 1884.



DEAR SIR, -- I should be very glad to be made a Member of the Society for Psychical Research; for Thought-transference, as you call it, or mental telegraphy as I have been in the habit of calling it, has been a very strong interest with me for the past nine or ten years. I have grown so accustomed to considering that all my powerful impulses come to me from somebody else, that I often feel like a mere amanuensis when I sit down to write a letter under the coercion of a strong impulse; I consider that that other person is supplying the thoughts to me, and that I am merely writing from dictation. And I consider that when that other person does not supply me with the thoughts, he has supplied me with the impulse anyway; I never seem to have any impulses of my own. Still, may be I get even by unconsciously furnishing other people with impulses.



I have reaped an advantage from these years of constant observation. For instance when I am suddenly and strongly moved to write a letter or inquiry, I generally don't write it -- because I know that that other person is at that moment writing to tell me the thing I wanted to know, -- I have moved him or he has moved me, I don't know which, -- but anyway I don't need to write, and so I save my labour. Of course I sometimes act upon my impulse without stopping to think. My cigars come to me from 1,200 miles away. A few days ago, -- September 30th, -- it suddenly,, and very warmly occurred to me that an order made three weeks ago for cigars had as yet, for some unaccountable reason, received no attention. I immediately telegraphed to inquire what the matter was. At least I wrote the telegram and was about to send it down town, when the thought occurred to me, "This isn't necessary, they are doing something about the cigars now -- this impulse has travelled to me 1,200 miles in half a second." S. L. CLEMENS.



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Mercenary ♦ By Mack Reynolds ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Mercenary ♦ By Mack Reynolds ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Mercenary



Author:  Dallas McCord Reynolds



Genre(s): General Fiction, Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Mark Nelson



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Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning... (Introduction from the Gutenberg text)



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The Werewolf In France ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural ♦ Audiobook

The Werewolf In France ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural ♦ Audiobook



Title: The Werewolf In France



Author:  Elliott O'Donnell



Genre(s): Gothic Fiction, Horror, Supernatural



Language: English



Read By: William Hahn



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Written in 1912 by a famous ghost hunter who was also an occult fantasy writer, this interesting book collects together folktales and traditions from across Europe, starting in the British Isles, through Spain, France, Belgium and Norway to Russia. The "scientific" accounts (including "How to Become a Werewolf") are embellished by anecdotes of the author's personal experiences with werewolves, ghosts and vampires.



The wolf is not the only animal whose shape, it is stated, man may possess the power of assuming; and it may be of some interest to inquire briefly into the varying branches of lycanthropy, comparing them with the one already under discussion. In Orissa, the power of metamorphosing into a tiger is asserted by the Kandhs to be hereditary, and also to be acquired through the practice of magic; many who have traveled in this country have assured me that there is a very great amount of truth in this assertion; and that although there are, without doubt, a number of impostors among those designated wer-tigers, there are most certainly many who are genuine. As with the werewolf, so with the were-tiger, the metamorphosis is usually dependent on the hour of the day, and generally occurs contemporaneously with the setting of the sun. But the lycanthropy of the were-tiger differs from that of the werewolf inasmuch as there is a definite god or spirit, in the shape of a tiger, that is directly responsible for the bestowal of the property. This tiger deity is looked upon and worshipped as a totem or national deity—that is to say, as a divine being that has the welfare of the Kandh nation especially at heart. It is communed with at home, but more particularly in the wild dreariness of the jungle, where, on the condition that the prayers of its devotees are sufficiently concentrated and in earnest, it confers—as an honor and privilege—the power of transmutation into its own shape.



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Tarzan and the Golden Lion ♦ By Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Action & Adventur...

Tarzan and the Golden Lion ♦ By Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Tarzan and the Golden Lion



Author:  Edgar Rice BURROUGHS



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Nature & Animal Fiction, Tarzan Series



Language: English



Read By:  Joshua Herring



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Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly animal becomes his ally and protector. Tarzan learns from the High Priestess, La, of a country north of Opar which is held in dread by the Oparians. It is peopled by a strange race of gorilla-men with the intelligence of humans and the strength of gorillas. From time to time they attack Opar, carrying off prisoners for use as slaves in the jewel-studded Temple where they worship a great black-maned lion. Accompanied by the faithful Jad-bal-ja, Tarzan invades the dread country in an attempt to win freedom for the hundreds of people held in slavery there... - Summary by Edgar Rice Burroughs



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Exploiter's End ♦ By James Causey ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Exploiter's End ♦ By James Causey ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Exploiter's End



Author:  James Causey



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Walter Mays



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Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires thought and plants seeds that have led to advances in science. The genre can spark an interest in the sciences and is cited as the impetus for the career choice of many scientists. It is a playing field to explore social perspectives, predictions of the future, and engage in adventures unbound into the richness of the human mind. ( A. Gramour)



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The Worlds of If ♦ By Stanley G. Weinbaum ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audio...

The Worlds of If ♦ By Stanley G. Weinbaum ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Worlds of If



Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Gregg Margarite



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Summary:

Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his short story “A Martian Odyssey” which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. A Martian Odyssey and its sequel are presented here as well as other Weinbaum gems including 3 stories featuring the egomaniacal physicist Haskel van Manderpootz and his former student, playboy Dixon Wells. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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Little Wars ♦ By H. G. Wells ♦ Military Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Little Wars ♦ By H. G. Wells ♦ Military Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: Little Wars



Author:  H. G. WELLS



Genre(s): War & Military Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Mark F. Smith



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A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. With an Appendix on Kriegspiel



Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civilizing influence of actual rules.



While wargaming progressed far past these beginnings, Wells observes how "little wars" with even his elementary rules can suggest the wholesale crudity of the real thing.

"You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but--the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do."



Wells leaves almost hanging the tantalizing concept that we might someday simulate war, as an instrument of international decision-making, rather than practice actual combat.



But most of this book is just the fun of evicting the boys from the playroom and spending happy days there, away from the "skirt-swishers", developing the framework under which two gentlemen might meet and accumulate boastable victories! (Summary by Mark F. Smith)



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The Origins Of The Werewolf Superstition ♦ By Caroline Taylor Stewart ♦ ...

The Origins Of The Werewolf Superstition ♦ By Caroline Taylor Stewart ♦ Audiobook



Title: The Origins Of The Werewolf Superstition



Author:  Caroline Taylor Stewart



Genre(s): Gothic Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  David Wales



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THE wolf is not the only animal whose shape, it is stated, man may possess the power of assuming; and it may be of some interest to inquire briefly into the varying branches of lycanthropy, comparing them with the one already under discussion. In Orissa, the power of metamorphosing into a tiger is asserted by the Kandhs to be hereditary, and also to be acquired through the practice of magic; many who have traveled in this country have assured me that there is a very great amount of truth in this assertion; and that although there are, without doubt, a number of impostors among those designated wer-tigers, there are most certainly many who are genuine. As with the werewolf, so with the wer-tiger, the metamorphosis is usually dependent on the hour of the day, and generally occurs contemporaneous with the setting of the sun. But the lycanthropy of the wer-tiger differs from that of the werewolf inasmuch as there is a definite god or spirit, in the shape of a tiger, that is directly responsible for the bestowal of the property. This tiger deity is looked upon and worshipped as a totem or national deity—that is to say, as a divine being that has the welfare of the Kandh nation especially at heart. It is communed with at home, but more particularly in the wild dreariness of the jungle, where, on the condition that the prayers of its devotees are sufficiently concentrated and in earnest, it confers—as an honor and privilege—the power of transmutation into its own shape.



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Status Quo ♦ By Mack Reynolds ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Status Quo ♦ By Mack Reynolds ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Status Quo



Author:  Dallas McCord Reynolds



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers



Language: English



Read By:  Peter Eastman



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Larry Woolford is a government agent, tasked with investigating the subversive activity. He does everything an ambitious young man should do if he wants to succeed: wear the right clothes, listen to the right music, even drink vodka martinis. Then he stumbles across a conspiracy of Weirds plotting to overthrow the entire existing social order. It's a race against time. Can he stop their fiendish plan, and keep America safe for shallow judgments based on status symbols? Status Quo was nominated for the 1962 Hugo Award for short fiction. - Summary by Peter Eastman



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Twain and Howells On Each Other ♦ By Mark Twain and William Dean Howells...

Twain and Howells On Each Other ♦ By Mark Twain and William Dean Howells ♦ Audiobook



Title:  Twain and Howells On Each Other



Authors: Mark Twain and William Dean Howells



Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Essays & Short Works



Language: English



Read By:  John Greenman



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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells published his famous "My Mark Twain" in the same year Clemens died, 1910. A few years earlier, Clemens wrote this "remembrance" and "appreciation" of the man who stuck with him through the ups and downs of his long literary journey. (John Greenman)



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