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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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Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World

Action & Adventure Fiction

408

Willis George Emerson - Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World

The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a...

JaySands 2 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

485

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Gods of Mars - (version 2)

In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant saved the planet's inhabitants, but he finds himself in the land of the dead....

Thomas A. Copeland 8 hours 41 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

497

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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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

522

Lord Dunsany - Fifty-One Tales

Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 50 minutes

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Children's Fiction

474

John Rae - New Adventures of Alice

After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book, John Rae began imagining what that girl would have gotten up to if he had...

Phil Chenevert and 10 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

509

Andre Norton - Storm Over Warlock, Version 2

The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 10 minutes

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Children's Fiction

452

Eva Katherine Gibson - Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch

Annie Elfrida McLane lives in a little brown house of the South Dakota prairie, within sight of the Black Hills. Her father is a widower and prospects for gold there; Annie lives at home with her grandmother and the...

Miriam Esther Goldman and 6 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

492

George Meredith - Shaving of Shagpat

The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. (Summary by Wikipedia.)...

Matthew Reece and 5 more 9 hours 4 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

505

J. Walker McSpadden - Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for «robbing from the rich and giving to the poor», assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his «Merry...

Barry Eads 5 hours 56 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

485

F. Anstey - Brass Bottle

What happens when a not-so-lucky man happens upon a brass bottle releases the djinni caught within? Misunderstanding, culture shock, hilarity, among other things. Will the well-intentioned djinni help his new master?...

Adrian Wheal and 5 more 7 hours 6 minutes

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Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading)

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a...

9 hours 27 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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