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Homer - Odysseys of Homer

The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor,...

Phil Schempf 14 hours 42 minutes

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Aldous Huxley - Leda

Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is his fourth compilation of poetry. It begins with the passionate and...

sdaeley17 and 6 more 1 hour 55 minutes

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Short works

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Mary Louisa Molesworth - Five Minutes' Stories

This is a collection of short stories for children. Listeners may wish to have a look at the text at Project Gutenberg to see the many illustrations accompanying each story. — Summary by Carolin

Simon Sherriff Allen and 7 more 2 hours 4 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Harold L. Goodwin - Boy Scouts in Russia

Thrown out of Russia by a powerful relative, a young American Boy Scout, Fred Waring, meets his Russian cousin, Boris Suvaroff, and together they discover the secrets of the advancing German army. Through perilous...

Kangaroo 4 hours 44 minutes Saalfield Boy Scout Series

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Short works

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Richard Wilson - Russian Storybook

Reverend Richard Wilson went to the heart of Russia to find stories from the eastern outposts of Christianity, untouched by the renaissance or reformation. He found the nature of the stories quite different from those...

Lynne T and 5 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Earth Sciences

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Arthur William Clayden - Cloud Studies

Classification of clouds, and meteorological condition of how they are formed. Written by Arthur W. Clayden, M.A., who was the former principal of University College, Exeter, UK — (Summary by Jennifer Dallman)

Jennifer Dallman 3 hours 47 minutes

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Parables of the Lord Jesus Christ - Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew

Christianity - Commentary

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St. John Chrysostom - Parables of the Lord Jesus Christ - Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew

Homilies 44 though 64 of St John Chrysostom's commentary on the Holy Gospel according to St Matthew, which include the parables and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. — Summary by The Reader

A LibriVox Volunteer 10 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Call of the Wild (version 4)

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 50 minutes

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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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James Weldon Johnson - Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid stigma, he has to pass as white. But would his sense of belonging and...

tiwo007 and 4 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 12. December 1896

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 12. December 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the December Number. It includes the following articles: The Geography of the Southern Peninsula of the United States, by Rev. John N. MacGonigle The...

Carol Cotter and 3 more 1 hour 35 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Eliza Burt Gamble - Sexes in Science and History

In this revised second edition of her first book «The evolution of woman» (1894), subtitled «An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man», Eliza Burt Gamble uses Darwin's theory of evolution and other...

Rapunzelina 9 hours 28 minutes

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Philosophy

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Leo Tolstoy - My Confession

«My Confession» is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions «What will come of my life?»...

Expatriate 2 hours 41 minutes

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