Nature & Animal Fiction

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Literary Fiction

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Sōseki Natsume - I Am A Cat (excerpt)

These are the first two chapters of Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece, «I Am A Cat» (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a landmark of modern Japanese literature, with its humorous but insightful depiction of...

Peter Eastman 3 hours 20 minutes

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Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisite in color, poetical in feeling, these legends of sun, moon, and stars, of...

David Wales 3 hours 35 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

436

Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of the Great Plains

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short stories, and also quite a few songs and poems. Each tale is tagged with what...

Kyle Van DeGlast 3 hours 9 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's coarseness. Relatively speaking, only a few myths could be selected. These...

David Wales 2 hours 24 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

478

Horacio Quiroga - South American Jungle Tales

The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact with on his farm in Misiones, a region of jungle in Uruguay along the banks...

James K. White 2 hours 26 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

498

Marietta Holley - Spring Song of the Swallow

Librivox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of «Spring Song of the Swallow», by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wife). This was the weekly poem for March 22-29, in honour of spring 2015! — Summary by...

Caitlin Buckley and 9 more 20 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

435

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - Hunter and His Dying Steed

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was «one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in...

DomBombadil and 7 more 25 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Gorilla Hunters

Ralph Rover is happily at home from his adventure on The Coral Island and wondering if he should settle down when he receives a visit from an eccentric stranger that won't give his name. This visit starts him on a...

Adele de Pignerolles 8 hours 7 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the country portrayed, but with no pretensions to being a purely scientific piece...

David Wales 3 hours 23 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

503

Louisa May Alcott - My Doves

Librivox volunteers bring you eleven readings of My Doves, by Louisa May Alcott. This was the fortnightly poem for December 21, 2014 — January 4, 2015 — Summary by Rachel

Bev J Stevens and 10 more 24 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Old Granny Fox

Old Granny Fox and grandson Reddy Fox must use all their cunning to hunt up enough food to survive the long winter. Food in the Green Meadow is scarce but Farmer Brown's hens are locked up tight and protected by...

Rosslyn Carlyle and 3 more 2 hours 45 minutes

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Ernest Thompson Seton - Wild Animals I Have Known

Wild Animals I Have Known is an 1898 book by naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton. The first entry in a new genre of realistic wild-animal fiction, Seton's first collection of short stories quickly became one...

KHand 4 hours 6 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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