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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Three Ghost Stories

As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the...

Muhammad Mussnoon and 1 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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Poetry

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Christmas Short Works Collection 2007

LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Colletion containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members. Section 09: A Cornish Christmas Play, a...

Ralph Snelson and 13 more 5 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Fifty Famous Stories Retold

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an event in history. Hear how Alexander the Great tamed Bucephalus, the kindness...

Laura Caldwell 3 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

Andy Adams - Cattle Brands

Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the harrowing skirmishes with banditos, thrilling shoot-outs, attempt at and the...

Nathalie J. 6 hours 43 minutes

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Poetry

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Local Color Collection Vol. 001

In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)

Alan Davis Drake and 14 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Short Stories

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James Joyce - Dead

A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James Joyce's transcendent tale of the mundanity and magic in life and death. «The Dead» is taken from Joyce's collection of short stories Dubliners...

iremonger 1 hour 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Louisa May Alcott - Garland for Girls

«These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls...

Lorelle Anderson 6 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Further Chronicles of Avonlea

Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery and is a sequel to Chronicles of Avonlea . Published in 1920, it includes a number of stories relating to the inhabitants of the...

Sibella Denton 6 hours 44 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Short Stories

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Bret Harte - Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Gesine and 10 more 12 hours 46 minutes

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Short Stories

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Anton Chekhov - Tales of Chekhov Vol. 01

This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett. Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor who turned to fiction as a hobby, and quickly blossomed into one of the...

Kirsten Ferreri 2 hours 1 minute

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 016

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 016: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Mark Nelson and 7 more 5 hours 17 minutes Short Story Collections

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Fantastic Fiction

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Lord Dunsany - Book of Wonder

«Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.» — Lord Dunsany, the preface to «The Book of Wonder»

Greg Elmensdorp 2 hours 29 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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