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Olive Beaupre Miller - In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume...

Snapdragon and 37 more 7 hours 15 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Pádraic Colum - Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus,...

Elizabeth Klett and 8 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Twenty Two Goblins

These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a...

KirksVoice 3 hours 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Little Book of Christmas

Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 2 hours 8 minutes

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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Four Million (Version 2)

The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty five stories of various lengths...

Mike Pelton and 13 more 5 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

Arnold Bennett - Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands (Summary by Andy Minter).

Andy Minter 10 hours 29 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 052

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 052: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Kasper and 14 more 7 hours 54 minutes Short Story Collections

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Ambrose Bierce - Can Such Things Be?

24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion — ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and...

Roger Melin 7 hours 37 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Owen Wister - Red Men And White

These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and...

David Wales 9 hours 37 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Conjure Woman

Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in «Patesville» (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color...

James K. White 3 hours 39 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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George William Foote - Satires and Profanities

«Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from...

Crln Yldz Ksr and 13 more 7 hours 22 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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