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Animals

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Mrs. Isabella Beeton - Book of Household Management

«Mrs. Beeton's» is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate bestseller, running to millions of copies within just a few years. In the cookery...

Sarah Jennings and 32 more 58 hours 15 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001

A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by Librivox volunteers.

Leon Mire and 5 more 2 hours 57 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Bertrand Russell - Problems of Philosophy

The Problems of Philosophy is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive...

Leon Mire and 9 more 4 hours 50 minutes

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Alfred Binet - Mind and the Brain

The authorized translation of L’âme et le corps, F. Legge, editor “This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to...

J. M. Smallheer and 9 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Drama of Exile

In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradise into the wilderness'. The bizarre, lyrical scenes that follow powerfully...

Barry Eads 2 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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George Barr McCutcheon - Brewster's Millions

The story revolves around Montgomery Brewster, a poor man who inherits a large sum of money. However, there is a catch — he has to spend every penny within 30 days, and end up with nothing at that time. Should he make...

Lucy Burgoyne 8 hours 3 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 016

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 016: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Mark Nelson and 7 more 5 hours 17 minutes Short Story Collections

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Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

Political Science

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John Ruskin - Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Unto This Last is an important work of political economic though that...

Hugh McGuire and 3 more 3 hours 16 minutes

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John L. Cotter - New Discoveries at Jamestown

Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first «successful» English settlement in America. Although the colonists eventually...

Mark F. Smith 2 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughs’ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands of a motherly African ape who raises him as her own. Although he is aware...

Mark F. Smith 9 hours 21 minutes Tarzan Series

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General Fiction

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Edna Ferber - Fanny Herself

Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally considered to have been based on Ferber’s own experiences growing up in...

J. M. Smallheer 9 hours 26 minutes

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Science

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William T. Hornaday - Extermination of the American Bison

The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds, became nearly extinct by a...

Availle and 10 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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