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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of Alaska

Editor Katharine Berry Judson collates and presents a narrative history of Alaskan Myths. Originally gathered and recorded by government ethnologists, she paints an overall picture of Alaskan history as told by its...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of...

James K. White 6 hours 36 minutes

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Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written...

ashleighjane 4 hours 53 minutes

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Marrow of Tradition

In The Marrow of Tradition , Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era...

James K. White 9 hours 52 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters (version 2)

Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the...

Elizabeth Klett 25 hours 17 minutes

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Robert Tressell - Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his...

Tadhg 22 hours 39 minutes

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Herman Melville - Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee , and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which...

TriciaG 11 hours 31 minutes

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Sinclair Lewis - Job

'The Job' is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, who desires to establish herself...

MichelleHarris 11 hours 59 minutes

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Robert Burns - Auld Lang Syne

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, a cultural event originating from Vancouver, Canada, celebrating the...

Alana Jordan and 10 more 16 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Seven Poor Travellers

One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter relates Dickens' visit to the ancient Richard Watts's Charity at Rochester....

Ruth Golding 1 hour 11 minutes

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W. E. B. Du Bois - Quest of the Silver Fleece

The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an unschooled “swamp girl” each begin a journey toward love, ambition...

Richard Kilmer and 1 more 12 hours 15 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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