Nature & Animal Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Power of the Dog

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making...

Andy Harrington and 12 more 31 minutes

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Madison Cawein - End of Summer

Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 9 more 13 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert W. Chambers - In Search of the Unknown

Robert Chambers was a contemporary of Lovecraft, and this book consists of «weird supernatural tales» in a somewhat similar manner, except that the emphasis is on humor rather than horror. The narrator works for the...

Peter Eastman 9 hours 14 minutes

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Jim Kjelgaard - Trading Jeff and His Dog

A fight in the Midwest leaves the dog's owner dead. He searches for a new friend and encounters Trading Jeff. Jeff is a traveling peddler. Beware, though, because life as a peddler isn't easy (and it's definitely not...

Kristin Lewis and 1 more 5 hours 13 minutes

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Ernest Thompson Seton - Animal Heroes

A hero is an individual of unusual gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or animal, this definition applies; and it is the histories of such that appeal to the imagination and to the hearts of those who hear them....

Ginny Blankenship and 7 more 6 hours 16 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Buster Bumblebee (version 2)

This charming collection of short stories features a bumblebee called Buster, his (extensive) family, and a great number of other animals who he meets after they move home to a new meadow. — Summary by Rosslyn Carlyle

Rosslyn Carlyle 1 hour 45 minutes

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E. Pauline Johnson - Erie Waters

«Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nation. I must think that she will hold a memorable place among poets in virtue of her...

annanneass and 9 more 13 minutes

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John Clare - Insects

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 19 minutes

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Clara Doty Bates - On The Tree Top

A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. — Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman.

BettyB and 6 more 2 hours 19 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains Indians. Standing in the midst of this vast green plain on a soft May morning,...

David Wales 3 hours 20 minutes

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Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Author and editor of numerous children's books, Thornton W. Burgess was also a noted conservationist. In writing for youngsters he combined a gift for storytelling with his love of the outdoors, creating an...

Hannah M. 1 hour 32 minutes

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)

The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest of the myths have been selected. The leading myth of the North the Raven Myth,...

David Wales 2 hours 24 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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