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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893....

Richard Kilmer 13 hours 8 minutes

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Plays

864

Anton Chekhov - Ivanov

Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her family after converting from Judaism, is dying of tuberculosis. He is deeply in...

2 hours 31 minutes

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Poetry

902

Emily Dickinson - Poems: Series Two

«The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness...

Laura Atkinson 1 hour 40 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Gene Sharp - There Are Realistic Alternatives

Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recognized as a grave problem. The objective of this essay is to explore a...

Benjamin Gittins 2 hours 9 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 053

A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including short stories by Melville, Blackwood, Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, Wilde and Thomas Hood.

James K. White and 12 more 8 hours 35 minutes Short Story Collections

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Essays

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Oxford Book of American Essays

Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to...

James E. Carson 20 hours 28 minutes

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Short Stories

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Edna Ferber - Dancing Girls

The Dancing Girls is just one of the 4 excellent short stories in this recording. All written by the master, Edna Ferber for magazines between 1910 and 1919 they naturally contain her unique mix of real people,...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 44 minutes

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*Non-fiction

880

John T. Morse - John Quincy Adams

This biography contains three main sections. the first covers Adams's early years and his time as a diplomat--both in America and overseas. The second tells of his two careers as Secretary of State and President. The...

shalclark and 8 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Contemporary

1.1K

Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás - Promulgation of Universal Peace: Vol. I

“Two years before the crash of world war shook the continents and upheaved oceans,” Howard MacNutt relates. “‘Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás visited the United States of America proclaiming the Glad-Tidings of Universal Peace and...

Nicholas James Bridgewater and 7 more 14 hours 4 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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John Stuart Mill - Auguste Comte and Positivism

Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all...

Bill Boerst 5 hours 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frank Gee Patchin - Pony Rider Boys in Montana

Yee-Haaw! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! In this book, the 3rd of the series, the boys have decided that they want to explore the north country. They also want to make their own arrangements for the...

Richard Kilmer and 3 more 5 hours 20 minutes The Pony Rider Boys series

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General Fiction

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Richard Marsh - Tom Ossington's Ghost

Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for a piano lesson from Madge, suddenly bolts out the back door and over the...

Patti Cunningham 5 hours 12 minutes

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