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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Elliot Griffis - Welsh Fairy Tales

This is a collection of delightful tales that explore the uniqueness of the Welsh people, Welsh heroes, Welsh countryside, Welsh animals and Welsh pride. Some other minor peoples are mentioned in passing (the English,...

Charlotte Duckett and 6 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Charles Perrault - Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales (version 2)

The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. All stories we of course have heard many times. But these are retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in a unique way that keeps the flavor of the...

Kathleen Flanary and 3 more 2 hours 37 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Henry James - Little Tour in France

A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week tour in France — from Touraine, down to Provence, then back up north — made by Henry James in 1882, and first published in the Atlantic...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 51 minutes

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Plays

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One-Act Play Collection 009

Ninth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. A Dramatic Evening Narrator: April6090 Mr Thaddeus Perkins: Jeff Moon Mr Edward Bradley: Tomas Peter...

3 hours 42 minutes One-Act Play Collections

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf - Art of Bookbinding

This handbook explains the art of bookbinding and simultaneously reminds us what a complex technology is to make books! Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder and son of a bookbinder, made this second edition of his book to enlighten...

Amelia Chesley and 3 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 5, May 1899

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

BettyB and 9 more 2 hours 14 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Children's Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Wishing Well

PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 41 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Inheritors

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process....

John Burlinson and 4 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. II

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the second volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap...

Lynne T and 26 more 47 hours 27 minutes

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War & Military

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Thomas Hodgkin - Life of Charlemagne

Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor. The author tells us that he «was a...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 19 minutes

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Modern

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Charles Ives - Essays Before a Sonata

Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this text, the ideas of these philosophers were attempted to be integrated into...

Edmund Bloxam 3 hours 21 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well (version 2)

A fairy tale with real life consequences, All's Well That Ends Well concerns a pooe physician's daughter who goes to Paris to heal the King and asks of him a husband; not himself, but the Count Rousillon, in whose...

Tony Addison 3 hours 38 minutes

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