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Detective Fiction

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Allan Pinkerton - Expressman and the Detective

Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency...

Pete Williams Pittsburgh PA 7 hours 23 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Arthur J. Rees - Hampstead Mystery

A murder whodunit… Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot wound. Investigator: Private Detective Crewe, a wealthy bachelor...

Lars Rolander and 3 more 12 hours 25 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 028

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 028: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Alan Davis Drake and 7 more 2 hours 41 minutes Short Story Collections

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*Non-fiction

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Doris Stevens - Jailed For Freedom

A first-hand account of the 1913-1919 campaign of American suffragettes, detailing their treatment at the hands of the courts, and the true conditions of their incarceration. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)

Blazin48 and 9 more 10 hours 6 minutes

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School

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Katharine Elizabeth Dopp - Tree-Dwellers

Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first educators to encourage the incorporation of physical and practical activity...

J. M. Smallheer 2 hours 22 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - As You Like It

One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden...

2 hours 23 minutes

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History

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Bill Nye - Comic History of the United States

This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic and humorous...

Allyson Hester 6 hours 14 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 08: 1811-1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Jc Guan and 6 more 3 hours 57 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Varied Types

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of...

Ray Clare 4 hours 45 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Cinema Murder

Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London. He finds out that his wealthy cousin Douglas has been seeing his girl friend Beatrice behind his back. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his...

Julie Levi and 13 more 8 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 3)

«All the privilege I claim for my own sex… is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.» In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class...

Moira Fogarty 8 hours 28 minutes

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Bibles

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American Standard Version - Bible (ASV) 09: 1 Samuel

The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh'muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism's Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew, and the Book(s) of...

Sam Stinson 2 hours 30 minutes Bible (American Standard Version)

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