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Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sæmund Sigfusson - Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this work both the Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of...

Becky Cook and 7 more 9 hours 14 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Charles Alexander Eastman - Indian To-day

Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of the North American Indian. He addressed issues such as Indian schools, health,...

April Gonzales and 6 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading)

Anne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green...

7 hours 46 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Van Wyck Brooks - Ordeal of Mark Twain

This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repression of his creative...

Lucretia B. 12 hours 54 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Abbie Phillips Walker - Sandman's Goodnight Stories

Have you every read a bed time story to a child? Or had one read to you? Fun, isn't it? These 28 delightful, short, well written and whimsical stores by the famous storyteller Abby Phillips just beg to be read aloud...

Richard Kilmer and 8 more 2 hours 53 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. Beam Piper - Slave Is a Slave

The Galactic Empire is slowly 'welcoming' into the family of civilized worlds those systems so far off in the backwater of the galaxy that they have been overlooked and ignored for the past 500 years or so. This is...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 27 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes From The Underground (version 2)

Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated,...

Bob Neufeld 5 hours 4 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Carlo Collodi - Adventures of Pinocchio (version 2)

Do today's children still learn what a «marionette» is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a world not dominated by plastic or electronic toys. Pinocchio is a puppet made...

Mark F. Smith 4 hours 41 minutes

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Owen Wister - Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is only 145 pages in a little pamphlet size. The author is famous for his stories...

David Wales 2 hours 45 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Sky Racer

A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new...

Richard Kilmer and 3 more 4 hours 30 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Poetry

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Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime...

Kevin Johnson 7 hours 47 minutes

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Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Homer - Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse

«It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best representation of Homer's Iliad in the English language.» — London Times, 1865...

Michael Armenta 25 hours 11 minutes

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