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Historical Fiction

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Isabella Varley Banks - Manchester Man

Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to commercial success mirrors the rise of the city at the heart of the...

Phil Benson 15 hours 35 minutes

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General Fiction

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Upton Sinclair - Samuel the Seeker

What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing up? Here we have one response to that question, a commentary by the great...

DPranitis 7 hours 28 minutes

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General

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Unknown - Ontario Public School Geography

This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politically incorrect in some of its descriptions by modern day standards. (Summary...

David Lawrence and 16 more 12 hours 58 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Emily Dickinson - Because I Could Not Stop For Death

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 12, 2013. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, fewer than a dozen...

Algy Pug and 14 more 20 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Frank Gee Patchin - Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon

Yee-Haaww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again. The boys are back home, but as they are chopping wood, it is decided that they need a new adventure out west. Mr. Perkin's, Walter's dad, has suggested the Grand...

Richard Kilmer and 3 more 5 hours 16 minutes The Pony Rider Boys series

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Ancient

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Aristotle - Eudemian Ethics

Eudemian Ethics (Greek: ΗΘΙΚΩΝ ΕΥΔΗΜΙΩΝ Latin: ETHICA EUDEMIA) discusses topics including virtue, friendship, happiness and God. It is believed to have been written before Nicomachean Ethics and to be named after...

Geoffrey Edwards 4 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Double: A Petersburg Poem

This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his «doppelganger» appearing in his life (at work, in society, etc). This «double» has all the qualities that the protagonist lacks....

Greg Giordano and 1 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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H. H. Bashford - Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2

The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. «And who are you, Mr Jugg?» she inquired. «I'm the King of the Bumpies,» he replied. When Marian was puzzled there came a little straight line,...

Inah Derby and 7 more 4 hours 13 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Iron Horse

“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thinking only of Emma Lee, to whom he turned, and went on—“Well, when Colonel...

Susan Morin and 10 more 9 hours 51 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Howard R. Garis - Uncle Wiggily in the Woods

Howard Garis, one of the most prolific children's writers of the 20th century, is credited with writing over 1500 Uncle Wiggily stories. In this collection, the loveable old rabbit stays close to home and visits...

Lynne T and 10 more 3 hours 50 minutes Uncle Wiggily Stories

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Le Queux - Whither Thou Goest

The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a “penniless nobody,” and announced that he would marry her against all opposition. He determined to separate the lovers; to which end he...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 50 minutes

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Plays

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George Bernard Shaw - Misalliance

Misalliance, a 1910 play by George Bernard Shaw, is an ironic examination of the romantic entanglements of a varied group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend. Most of the romantic...

3 hours 5 minutes

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