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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Arthur Machen - Red Hand

Two London gentlemen ponder the evolution of humankind as they investigate a modern-day murder committed with an ancient tool. — Summary by Wanda White

Wanda White 1 hour 6 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Ann Radcliffe - EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts

In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in order to spy on his girlfriend, Aura, and see if she really loves him. He does...

Grant Hurlock 56 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 6, 2013. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer,...

Algy Pug and 14 more 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James B. Blish - Thing in the Attic

Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesn’t believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants created his tree-dwelling race. He makes his opinion known and is banished with his infidel friends to the...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 22 minutes

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2)

Children's Fiction

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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who...

ashleighjane 1 hour 8 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Thomas Moore - On Passing Deadman’s Island

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and...

April Gonzales and 17 more 31 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Story of Peter Pan

THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original play, with the approval of Barrie, and shortened it into a book with...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 1 minute

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Children's Fiction

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Owen Wister - New Swiss Family Robinson

A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 28 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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August Strindberg - Ghost Sonata

The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten) is a play in three acts by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Written in 1907, it was first produced at Strindberg's Intimate Theatre in Stockholm on 21 January 1908… The Ghost Sonata...

1 hour 24 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures Underground

This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was generously illustrated by Carrol and meant to entertain his family and friends....

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 20 minutes

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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

Fantastic Fiction

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Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the...

John Greenman 1 hour 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lee Hawkins Garby - Subspace Survivors

A team of space travelers are caught in a subspace accident which, up to now, no one has ever survived. But some of the survivors of the Procyon are not ordinary travelers. Their psi abilities allow them to see things...

Juliana M. and 1 more 1 hour 26 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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