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Science Fiction

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Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do...

Alex Patterson and 7 more 4 hours 38 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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G. K. Chesterton - Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz 6 hours

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Rafael Sabatini - Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set in the late 16th century, and concerns a Cornish sea-faring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by...

Denny Sayers and 1 more 14 hours 37 minutes

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Poetry

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Walter Crane - Baby's Own Aesop

«Baby's Own Aesop» presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each «pictorially pointed» by Walter Crane, the noted painter and illustrator. He apprenticed to master wood-engraver, William James Linton, who...

Denny Sayers 42 minutes

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Poetry

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Carl Sandburg - Cornhuskers

Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.

Betsie Bush 2 hours 20 minutes

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Poetry

753

John Milton - Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully...

Owen and 11 more 9 hours 41 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

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Susanna Moodie - Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy «the bush», as she called it. She and her husband moved to Belleville in 1840, which she referred to as «the clearings». Here she described urban life,...

11 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories

The Just So Stories for Little Children , first published in 1902, were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are a collection of fantastic stories, typically about how various animals came to be the way...

Reynard T. Fox 3 hours 33 minutes

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Satire

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Ambrose Bierce - Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce (1842 — 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's...

Peter Yearsley and 13 more 8 hours 35 minutes

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General Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Price of Love

Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with the woman for only a short time, she is taken into the heart of the family. She falls in love with one of Mrs Maldon's descendents, but...

Christine Blachford 9 hours 12 minutes

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New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day

Poetry

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Lydia Maria Child - New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day

LibriVox volunteers bring you two different recordings of The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day , by Lydia Maria Child, to celebrate Thanksgiving, 2006. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of...

Betsie Bush and 1 more 5 minutes

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Reference

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Tom Bullock - Ideal Bartender

The book was written by Tom Bullock, a well-known bartender at the St. Louis Country Club. His skills as a bartender were so remarkable that a libel suit hinged on the excellence of his drinks. In The Ideal Bartender,...

David Barnes and 4 more 1 hour 16 minutes

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