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General Fiction

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Edgar Fawcett - Douglas Duane

An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love with the book collector’s fiancée, he concocts an evil plot to have her for his...

ashleighjane and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Family

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Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna (version 2)

In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna loses her mother then her dad to disease. This book describes how the orphan is sent to be raised by her aunt who lives far away in the East of the country....

Phil Chenevert 6 hours 7 minutes

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - Hamlet (version 3)

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet,...

3 hours 41 minutes

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Children's Fiction

896

Evaleen Stein - Gabriel and the Hour Book

Brother Stephen has the heart of an artist and wishes to leave the abbey to travel and see the world. However, King Louis has decreed that an «hour book» be made for his bride, Lady Anne, which in turn causes the...

Laura Victoria 1 hour 57 minutes

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Comedy

795

John Galsworthy - Skin Game

A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives...

2 hours 27 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Athanasius of Alexandria - Contra Gentes

Contra Gentes is the first of a two volume work published by Athanasius of Alexandria prior to the outbreak of the Arian controversy (ca. 319). It focuses especially on pagan beliefs and worship concluding with a...

Jonathan Lange 2 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

797

Owen Wister - Members of the Family

Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 7 hours 28 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 110

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2012.

April Gonzales and 12 more 1 hour 31 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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*Non-fiction

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Mabel Osgood Wright - Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts

Pleasant non-fiction journey into the backwoods of the New England coastal countryside by the first president of the Connecticut Audubon Society, circa 1900. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 7 hours 18 minutes

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Short works

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Abbie Phillips Walker - Sandman's Hour

Reading bedtime stories to children can be a wonderful way to relax and at the same time act out the exciting things happening in the story for them. If you've done it, you know the feeling and if you haven't I can...

anolen and 10 more 2 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

781

John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes and Co.

Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This...

ToddHW and 1 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Frederick Arnold Kummer - Film of Fear (Dramatic Reading)

(Written under the pseudonym, Arnold Fredericks.) Ruth Morton is a world-renowned film actress who seems to have it all: youth, beauty, wealth, and a viable career. But she soon becomes the target of a malicious...

6 hours 51 minutes

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