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Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart

The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere,...

clarinetcarrot and 5 more 7 hours 53 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

956

Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth The Wanderer

One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, he wanders around the world in search of someone who would replace him and...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 28 hours 39 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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William J. Long - School of The Woods

Some Life Studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Training This is the third book in the Wood Folk series by William J. Long, where he masterfully recreates animal life studies he observed while in the woods. He...

Maggie Travers 5 hours 35 minutes

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Short Stories

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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - Little Angel and Other Stories

This is a volume of short works by Leonid Andreyev. — Summary by Carolin

Larry Wilson and 10 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Hugh Walpole - Joseph Conrad

This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Though he did...

David Wales 2 hours 17 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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Ann Radcliffe - Romance of the Forest

A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in «Northanger Abbey» as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural fears of Catherine. Ann Radcliffe has been called the «Great Enchantress» of her age...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 13 hours 52 minutes

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Science - History of the Universe Vol. 2: Geology

Earth Sciences

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - History of the Universe Vol. 2: Geology

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The second volume is on Geology written by Harold E. Slade and W. E. Ferguson. This book covers the early efforts in and beginnings of geological concepts,...

Eric Metzler and 12 more 10 hours 7 minutes

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Modern

843

John Dewey - How We Think

A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also represents the...

Linda Andrus 8 hours 54 minutes

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Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty

Literary Criticism

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie - Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty

Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. — Summary by Timothy Ferguson

Timothy Ferguson 1 hour 59 minutes

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Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

*Non-fiction

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years...

David Wales 4 hours 7 minutes

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Family Life

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Eleanor's Victory

Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's eye, and disposed to be kind. Of course there are things missing: she does not...

Eleanor Howard 18 hours 9 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Phoebe Daring

A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman

Miriam Esther Goldman and 9 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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