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Sinclair Lewis - Main Street (Version 2)

Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to...

Mark Nelson 18 hours 14 minutes

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Albert A. Young - Stories from the Adirondacks

A collection of five stories all of which take place in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and most which contain elements of some mystery hidden deep within the forests. — Summary by Roger Melin

Roger Melin 1 hour 39 minutes

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Lafcadio Hearn - Gleanings in Buddha Fields

Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known for his collections of Japanese ghost stories (in particular Kwaidan ), he...

Availle and 6 more 6 hours 25 minutes

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More Selected Classics of Washington Irving

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Washington Irving - More Selected Classics of Washington Irving

Washington Irving is, arguably, one of America's greatest writers. He spent many years in Europe and kept records of his observations, which formed the basis of such classics as «Old Christmas,» «Bracebridge Hall» and...

Greg Giordano 1 hour 57 minutes

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With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest

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G. A. Henty - With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest

In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civilization of tens of thousands. This is the story of an Englishman who boards a...

Ryan Cherrick and 2 more 15 hours 22 minutes

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Louis Hémon - Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)

The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a famous example of the genre known as «novels of the land» («romans du...

Bruce Pirie 5 hours 19 minutes

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Vachel Lindsay - Golden Book of Springfield

The Golden Book of Springfield is American poet Vachel Lindsay's strange and mystical odyssey through the Springfield, Illinois of 2018, where the residents of that city strive to turn their home into a democratic...

Chuck Williamson 9 hours 22 minutes

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Why do we need a public library?

Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirror site in Canada to ensure IA's availability to all users. The IA is a vast...

Michele Fry and 14 more 16 hours 25 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol (Version 09)

«A Christmas Carol» has been credited with relaunching the celebration of Christmas as we know it. It relaunched Charles Dickens' literary career, that is for sure! More than that, and more importantly, it is an...

Greg Giordano 3 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to...

Gillian Hendrie and 14 more 26 hours 47 minutes

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Henry James - Outcry

The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy American art collector who is bent on buying up treasured masterpieces from the Old...

Linda Johnson and 1 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Richard le Gallienne - October Vagabonds

Richard and his friend Colin must sadly return from their distant hermitage to New York City at summer's end. However, rather than take the train on the 430 mile trip to the city, the two decide to walk the route,...

Roger Melin 3 hours 13 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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