Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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William Makepeace Thackeray - History of Pendennis

In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a young gentleman trying to make his way in the world. Pen's difficulties in finding his place in the difficult maze of...

Kristin Lewis and 8 more 34 hours 50 minutes

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George Lyttelton - Dialogues of the Dead

Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literature, George Lyttleton being one of them. He allows Plato to discourse with...

DrPGould 6 hours 54 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Henry Hudson - Purple Land

In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 12 hours 15 minutes

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Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Snorri Sturleson - Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World

Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) ca. 1230. The...

Ærik Bjørnsson and 1 more 34 hours 23 minutes

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Henry C. Barkley - Studies in the Art of Rat-Catching

This book is often described as an instruction manual on the subject of rat-catching. It does indeed contain a good deal about rats, ferrets and dogs, but it is much more than that. Barkley fills the book with humour,...

Clive Catterall 3 hours

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Family Life

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J. M. Barrie - Tommy and Grizel

This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a...

beyondutopia and 5 more 12 hours 59 minutes

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Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment

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Ray Stannard Baker - Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment

My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather binding, gold embossing, a sheet of tissue paper protecting the color plate...

Sue Anderson 7 hours 12 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Maurice Henry Hewlett - Lore of Proserpine

If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it,...

Chris A. Hawkins and 2 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mr. Harrison's Confessions

It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This...

NoelBadrian 3 hours 49 minutes

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Alexandre Dumas - Forty-Five Guardsmen

The sequel to «Chicot the Jester» and final book of the «Valois Romances.» This story begins six years after the famed «Duel of the Mignons» between the favorites of the courts of King Henry III and Henry the Duke...

John Van Stan 15 hours 47 minutes

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George MacDonald - Vicar's Daughter

This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father is a clergyman, Mr. Walton, whose history has already been told in «A Quiet...

Jules Hawryluk and 11 more 14 hours 9 minutes

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Irving Bacheller - Silas Strong

Per the author: «The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman's view-point, the play of great forces which have been tearing down his home...

Roger Melin 8 hours 11 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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