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Literary Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 3)

Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradation and impoverishment of the London underworld and its denizens. Dickens...

Peter John Keeble 15 hours 49 minutes

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Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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M. R. James - Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are ancient literatures about biblical events and characters but these books are not...

David Wales 3 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Arthur Morrison - To London Town

Written to complement Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago , and the final book in the trilogy, To London Town examines the mean streets and tough lives of the inhabitants of the East End of London. The...

KevinS and 7 more 7 hours 1 minute Mean Streets

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Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of Sicily and Jerusalem 1194-1250

War & Military

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Lionel Allshorn - Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of Sicily and Jerusalem 1194-1250

Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries «Stupor Mundi,» the «astonishment of the world.» Frequently at war with the...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 13 minutes

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Short works

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 037

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 037: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

mleigh and 8 more 1 hour 49 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 076

A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the annals of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories, Robert Louis Stevenson's cynical observations on...

Peter Thomlinson and 5 more 6 hours 51 minutes Short Story Collections

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With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt

War & Military

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Tickner Edwardes - With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt

Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whether they were fighting on the frontline or engaged in other operations...

Steve C 11 hours 4 minutes

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Comedy

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William Wycherley - Country Wife

One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherley’s The Country Wife is a lively and riotous exploration of courtly and city life in the seventeenth century, which was rife with...

3 hours 34 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Helen Wells - Clue of the Gold Coin

Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1947 to 1964. This book is volume 12 of The Vicki Barr Air Stewardess Series. When a shipment of priceless gold doubloons being...

amitsharma 4 hours 11 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lost for Love

EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; men of professional standing, and their wives. He sought to win friends for...

Celine Major 15 hours 19 minutes

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In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace

Political Science

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H. G. Wells - In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace

In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in the spring of 1918 from essays he had recently published discussing the problem of establishing lasting peace when World War I ended. It is mostly devoted to...

John Schuurman 4 hours 21 minutes

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Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Richard Steele - Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge. In 1709, Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new...

Elijah Fisher 5 hours 33 minutes

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