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Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter

Biography & Autobiography

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Elliott O'Donnell - Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter

After having a difficult time establishing a career as a novelist, O’Donnell discovered to his happy surprise that the reading public was very interested in his hobby of chasing ghosts, which he called “Superphysical...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 20 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Deborah Alcock - Spanish Brothers (Dramatic Reading)

Juan and Carlos Meñaya have longed to find their father ever since they were little. Their dream starts to get lost, though, as they grow up and go separate ways. Juan goes off to war and falls under the influence of...

12 hours 28 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Clue of the Silken Ladder

In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secretive and somewhat sinister old Japanese curio shop owner? How can the...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 21 minutes

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Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals

Biography & Autobiography

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Charles Edward Stowe - Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to have touched off the American Civil War with her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Michele Fry 15 hours 18 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Leavenworth Case (Version 2)

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a female. Indeed, it was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who came to be...

Kevin Green 12 hours 6 minutes

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Plays

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Alexandre Dumas, fils - Princess of Bagdad

Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of the proprieties of society? Are not women like you above all that? Was I to come delicately and hypocritically to offer your husband the sum he stood in need of?...

1 hour 59 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Charles Lamb - Last Essays of Elia

Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life...

Tony Addison 10 hours 18 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Arthur Symons - Figures of Several Centuries

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and...

Jim Locke and 12 more 8 hours 59 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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E. Nesbit - Wet Magic (version 2)

Are mermaids real? Well of course they are! Just ask the four very English children who, when on vacation by the sea, find out about one being held in a circus and, since 'they die in captivity' decide on a daring...

Mike Justice and 4 more 4 hours 53 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 156

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2016.

John Burlinson and 14 more 1 hour 40 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Memoirs

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

An review essay of «Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay». The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays. «Hundreds of remarkable persons had passed in review...

Barbara Baker 2 hours 47 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Casper S. Yost - Patience Worth

Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. Contact with the spirit world or parlor trick? If the latter, it was well...

Lynne T 5 hours 5 minutes

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