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Tres Mosqueteros
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Corsario
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punyalada. Novela Montanyenca
3
Guerra de los Mundos
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Napoleón en Chamartín
6
Isla del Tesoro
9
Aventuras de Robinsón Crusoe
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Viajes de Gulliver a diversos países remotos
4
Bailén
5
Sombrero de Tres Picos
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Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers
Chapter: 11 | Listen:

And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some claim that Conan Doyle was writing more experimentally, rather than to the conventional Sherlock Holmes formula. Not all the stories are narrated by the faithful Watson, and the stories are regarded as the darkest of the Holmes canon, with some unusual villains. Part 2 Please note: Section 5, The Adventure of the Three Gables, includes language which, though normal for the time it was written, is now regarded as highly unacceptable racial slurs. Anyone who finds this too offensive may wish to omit this story. Indeed, any listener who would understandably prefer to avoid my poor attempt at American accents, may prefer not to listen to a number of these stories. Conan Doyle seemed to like American villains. … (summary by Ruth Golding) This recording was originally published on Legamus.eu and was later released on Librivox when US copyright permitted. [chương_files]

How to Camp Out

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Sports & Recreation
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 1

Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern readers may be amused by Maj. Gould’s few remarks on ladies, who “must be cared for more tenderly than men.” – Summary by Sarah Jennings [chương_files]

Inside the Lines

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 1

As World War I commences, a plucky young American woman in Europe on a business trip begins to realize that she may have remained too long. She and others anxious to leave for home are caught up in events swirling about them. A mysterious British officer becomes involved. This romance-tinged spy thriller begins on a train in Calais bound for Paris and ends in Gibraltar. Based on a 1915 play of the same name, the novel was adapted for the screen in a 1918 silent version and again as a “talky” in 1930. This was the third novel written by Biggers, who went on to write six Charlie Chan novels in the 1920’s and 1930’s. — Lee Smalley [chương_files]

Riddle of the Sands

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers, War & Military Fiction
Chapter: 30 | Listen:

Containing many realistic details based on Childers’ own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story. It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom. It is often called the first modern spy novel, although others are as well, it was certainly very influential in the genre and for its time. The book enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I and was extremely influential. Winston Churchill later credited it as a major reason that the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow. (Summary from Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Conspiration des milliardaires

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Chapter: 23 | Listen:

De l’espionnage industriel, une guerre commerciale entre les États-Unis et l’Europe (ou plutôt la France), des inventeurs qui réfléchissent aux conséquences de leur travaux et à la paix dans le monde, des péripéties et des rebondissements, un peu de romance avec quelques frustrations, tels sont les ingrédients de ce roman populaire qui comporte des personnages aux caractères très typés. – Résumé par Isad [chương_files]

False Faces

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers, War & Military Fiction
Chapter: 23 | Listen:

This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life, when World War I wrecks his life. With his family dead and the spy Ekstrom alive after all, his special skills as the Lone Wolf are needed once more, this time in the war behind enemy lines. But again, there is a mysterious woman involved… (Summary by Carolin) [chương_files]

Alienista

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers
Chapter: 9 | Listen:

O Alienista, de Machado de Assis, é um pequeno romance sobre loucura, cientificismo e poder. O enredo se desenrola a partir dos esforços científicos de um importante médico português, o dr. Simão Bacamarte, cuja obsessão pela busca de um método universal para tratar e curar distúrbios mentais leva os habitantes da pequena cidade de Itaguaí ao terror, conspiração e a tentativas de revolução. Em pouco tempo, o hospício do dr. Bacamarte passa a tratar não só os doentes mentais, mas também os sãos, que, segundo o diagnóstico do médico, poderiam vir a desenvolver doenças mentais. O Alienista tem como tema a crítica ao cientificismo arbitrário e sua influência em elementos políticos e culturais. The Psychiatrist is a tragicomic literary piece on madness, scientism and power. It follows the scientific efforts of Dr. Simão Bacamarte, a prominent Portuguese physician whose obsession for discovering a universal method to treat and consequently cure mental disturbs drives the inhabitants of the small town of Itaguaí to fear, conspiracy and revolutionary attempts. In a short space of time, Bacamarte’s madhouse passes to take inside of its walls not only mentally ill patients but also healthy citizens who, according to the doctor’s diagnoses, are about to develop some sort of mental illness. The Psychiatrist stands out as a highly ironic critic to the arbitrary of Scientism and its influence on cultural and political matters. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Leni) [chương_files]

Return of Clubfoot

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers
Chapter: 26 | Listen: 1

Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber of a hidden treasure. With the assistance of a millionaire, he sets out for Cock Island, in the Pacific. To his astonishment he discovers that the Man with the Clubfoot, whom he had regarded as dead, has anticipated him. It is obvious to Okewood that his old enemy is also in search of the hidden gold, and there ensues a thrilling sequence of adventures, in which the millionaire’s pretty daughter takes a prominent part. Okewood has the cipher, and the Man with the Clubfoot determines to secure it, for without that cipher it is impossible to discover the hiding-place of the treasure; but there is something that the Man with the Clubfoot does not know, whereas Okewood does. – Summary by Original Gutenberg text [chương_files]

Wife of the Secretary of State

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Chapter: 36 | Listen: 1

In this political thriller set at the turn of the 20th century, several lives, both of Washington insiders and those on the periphery, intersect over the issue of some stolen diplomatic papers. And what hidden secrets bind Mrs. Redmond, the wife of the Secretary of State, to the unscrupulous Count Valdmir, the Russian ambassador? Politics, power, and intrigue combine in this novel, first published in 1905. (Summary by Nullifidian) Book coordinated by Nullifidian & M Z Spark. [chương_files]

secreto del ahorcado

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Cuento largo o novela breve de intriga y suspense escrita por Charles Dickens. El inicio es ya prometedor: No hace al caso referir la manera cómo supe lo que voy a contar aquí ni quién me lo refirió … Baste saber que lo ahorcaron y que su historia es como sigue… (Summary by Epachuko) [chương_files]