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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged)

Children's Fiction

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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a...

Kirsten Ferreri 58 minutes

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Children's Fiction

533

L. Frank Baum - Scarecrow of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and,...

Scott Sherris 5 hours 4 minutes Oz books

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Lamb - Adventures of Ulysses

Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the...

Rebecca Dittman 3 hours 47 minutes

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George MacDonald - Princess and the Goblin

The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her mysterious...

Lizzie Driver 5 hours 32 minutes

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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

490

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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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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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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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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