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Adventures of a Brownie as Told to my Child

Children's Fiction

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Adventures of a Brownie as Told to my Child

Adventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family's coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members of the household. Written by Ancilla

Ancilla and 3 more 1 hour 53 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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The Gawain Poet - Gawayne and the Green Knight

Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight , a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance...

Betsie Bush 1 hour 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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LibriVox volunteers - Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month . The twist is that there are up to 30 people writing together, instead of one toiling alone....

Juho Fröjd and 18 more 7 hours 37 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of Aryan women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction)....

Heather Ordover and 2 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Voltaire - Candide

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never openly admitted to having written the controversial Candide; the work is signed...

Fox in the Stars and 6 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Arthurian Miscellany

A collection of works that explore the rich and evocative legend of King Arthur. The exploits of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been a staple of British literature through the centuries, drawing...

Alan Davis Drake and 6 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Enchanted Castle

Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the center of a maze. Or...

Peter Eastman 8 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World , is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the «travelers' tales»...

Lizzie Driver 11 hours 23 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol (version 02)

A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound...

Glen Hallstrom 2 hours 43 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned at an infant he is found by the nymph...

Kristin LeMoine 3 hours 27 minutes

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Lord Dunsany - Time and the Gods

Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was a London-born Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy. He was influenced by Algernon Swinburne, who wrote the line «Time and the Gods are at...

KentF and 7 more 4 hours 12 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Enchanted Island of Yew

A fairy has become bored with her life, and convinces some young girls to transform her into a human boy so she can go on adventures. The adventures come fast and furious, as the newly-named Prince Marvel explores the...

Ted Delorme 4 hours 42 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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