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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout

Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially-designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not...

Tom Weiss 4 hours 47 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Political Science

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Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (Books III and IV)

In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nature of a Christian commonwealth. Book 3 begins with a wealth of biblical...

Carl Manchester and 7 more 10 hours 54 minutes

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Satire

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Samuel Butler - Erewhon

Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part...

calystra and 8 more 8 hours

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Lost Prince

“The Lost Prince” is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin named The Rat. Marco's father, Stefan, is a Samavian patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom of...

Susan Umpleby 10 hours 38 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Andre Norton - Storm Over Warlock

The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing...

R. J. Davis 7 hours 18 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 024

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 024: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Rowdy Delaney and 8 more 4 hours 11 minutes Short Story Collections

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Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income

*Non-fiction

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Alfred Marshall - Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income

Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the Principles of Economics in 1881 and he spent much of the next decade at work...

Sibella Denton and 7 more 8 hours 57 minutes Principles of Economics

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Erotica

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Mathilda

The finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father's incestuous love for his daughter and its consequences, meant that the manuscript was suppressed by Shelley's own father, and...

Cori Samuel 3 hours 57 minutes

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General

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William Henry Giles Kingston - Stories of Animal Sagacity

300+ short stories of how smart and savvy various individual animals have been seen to be, and in most cases a little moral is drawn from the story. (Summary by Allyson Hester)

Allyson Hester 5 hours 43 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Dick Sands the Boy Captain

Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea...

Alex C. Telander 8 hours 37 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Walter Pater - Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1

Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare...

hefyd 6 hours 35 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Garrett P. Serviss - Curiosities of the Sky

Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been penetrated."-Excerpt from the Preface of Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett...

Laura Caldwell and 5 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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