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Action & Adventure

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Laura Lee Hope - Story of a Bold Tin Soldier

«Yes, I suppose you may say I have, admitted the Bold Tin Soldier. „But though my men and I have a fine home with Arnold, still I get lonesome for you toys once in a while. I have met the Sawdust Doll, the White...

Nan Dodge 1 hour 35 minutes

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Single author

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Lewis Carroll - Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)

An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The Snark, to lesser-known gems such as Phantasmagoria, a tale of the...

MichaelMaggs 2 hours 31 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Philip Francis Nowlan - Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 3)

This is the original ‘Buck Rogers’ SF classic. Thrill to the adventures of Anthony «Buck» Rogers, one of the most celebrated characters in the history of science fiction. Famed in comic strips, television, in movies,...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 57 minutes

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St. Bonaventure's Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

Christianity - Commentary

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Saint Bonaventure - St. Bonaventure's Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

Seeing himself as «unequal to so great a task», St. Bonaventure nevertheless endeavored to introduce his readers to the practice of «the most beneficial of all devout exercises, and that which is most capable of...

Eduardo 13 hours 1 minute

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Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Josh Kibbey and 11 more 10 hours 42 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends

History

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Carl Parcher Russell - One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends

This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its discovery by non-natives in the Indian War of 1851 to the mid-twentieth century....

David Wales 5 hours 54 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III

This work has been considered the «go-to» bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain....

John Greenman 23 hours 10 minutes

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Satire

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George Bernard Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession

.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two performances because of the profession talked about. The play is about a...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 50 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 3)

Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradation and impoverishment of the London underworld and its denizens. Dickens...

Peter John Keeble 15 hours 49 minutes

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Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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M. R. James - Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are ancient literatures about biblical events and characters but these books are not...

David Wales 3 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Arthur Morrison - To London Town

Written to complement Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago , and the final book in the trilogy, To London Town examines the mean streets and tough lives of the inhabitants of the East End of London. The...

KevinS and 7 more 7 hours 1 minute Mean Streets

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Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of Sicily and Jerusalem 1194-1250

War & Military

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Lionel Allshorn - Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of Sicily and Jerusalem 1194-1250

Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries «Stupor Mundi,» the «astonishment of the world.» Frequently at war with the...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 13 minutes

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