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Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett - Adventures of an Ugly Girl

“Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought to be, thanks to your carelessness.” “You are very good to ignore my own...

Zarina Silverman and 6 more 7 hours 27 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 075

A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Carolyn Wells, Egerton Castle, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Stephen Leacock and others to bring...

Lynne T and 9 more 7 hours 44 minutes Short Story Collections

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Single author

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Madison Cawein - Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 5

This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It begins with the long poem Intimations of the Beautiful and falls into...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 7 hours 58 minutes

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Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books

Animals & Nature

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Rudyard Kipling - Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books

In the Jungle Books, Kipling tells 9 wonderful and exciting tales about Mowgli, the human baby raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of India. His exploits and adventures are many and varied especially his dealing...

Phil Chenevert 7 hours 28 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Edward S. Ellis - Cave In the Mountain

Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he wrote under dozens of pseudonyms, as well as under his own name, it is...

Thomas Rose 5 hours 45 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Charles S. Brooks - Hints to Pilgrims

In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies, describes funny incidents that can happen to people on holidays or in...

Bob Dunlop and 8 more 4 hours 44 minutes

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 5, December 1902

Nature & Animal Fiction

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 5, December 1902

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

tovarisch and 11 more 2 hours 3 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Platt - Stories of the Scottish Border

Nothing seems to be known about Mr and Mrs William Platt, the writers of Stories of the Scottish Border. What they produced is an eccentric guidebook and history, seen partly through the ballads of the region. The...

Jhiu 7 hours 32 minutes

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Short Stories

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Short stories (Early works 1837-1852)

A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her short works for Charles Dickens's Household Words magazine between 1850 and...

Phil Benson 4 hours 56 minutes

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Science Fiction

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William Richard Bradshaw - Goddess of Atvatabar

An accident during a polar expedition leads the crew of the Polar King to the discovery of an entire world within the earth. Within the interior realm lies a vast ocean with continents and civilisations unknown to the...

Nigel Fisher 8 hours 56 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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William Blades - Enemies of Books

The author, an avid book collector, calls for the better protection of books against the «enemies» which lead to their physical destruction. In a series of brief chapters, he details the losses caused by raging fire,...

Maria Kasper 2 hours 32 minutes

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Family Life

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Edward P. Roe - Driven Back To Eden

Frustrated with life in the tenements generally and the negative influences on his children specifically, a father decides to move his family to the country, where they live off the land and breathe fresh air. —...

DavidG 7 hours 31 minutes

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