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General Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection, Book 1

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was...

David Barnes and 5 more 8 hours 51 minutes Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Napoleon of Notting Hill

While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: «Forward, my beauty, my Arab,» he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, «fleetest of all thy...

Ray Clare 5 hours 56 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 031

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 031: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Alan Davis Drake and 5 more 2 hours 26 minutes Short Story Collections

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*Non-fiction

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J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Solo)

In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into scientific thinking as it stood in 1922 on the big, the little, and the biological. With straightforward language intended for a general audience, this book...

Mark F. Smith 10 hours 1 minute The Outline of Science

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Action & Adventure

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Thomas Mayne Reid - Scalp Hunters

«Unroll the world’s map, and look upon the great northern continent of America. Away to the wild west, away toward the setting sun, away beyond many a far meridian, let your eyes wander. Rest them where golden rivers...

Dale Latham and 7 more 12 hours 9 minutes

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Political Science

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John Milton - Areopagitica

A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War… Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643,...

Moira Fogarty 2 hours 1 minute

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report

*Non-fiction

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission - National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report

The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and economic implications of gambling in the United States. This report presents the...

Sam Stinson and 6 more 8 hours 37 minutes United States Government Reports

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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

Children's Fiction

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E. M. Berens - Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella)

Sibella Denton and 10 more 11 hours 24 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Three Men and a Maid

This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a...

Tim Bulkeley 5 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Jane Andrews - Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

«You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous „old woman who lived in the shoe,“ has so many children that she doesn't know what to do. But you will know better when you become acquainted with her, and learn how...

Mrs. Darcy and 9 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Buchan - Thirty-nine Steps

Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred...

Adrian Praetzellis 4 hours 20 minutes

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Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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H. P. Lovecraft - Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien....

Keith Worrell and 13 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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