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Comedy

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Jesse Lynch Williams - Why Marry?

Why Marry? is a comedy, which «tells the truth about marriage». We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 7 minutes

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Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)

*Non-fiction

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Abner Doubleday - Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)

Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Francisco, and is credited (though perhaps erroneously) with inventing the game...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 35 minutes

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Michael Faraday - Chemical History of A Candle

The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday — a chemist and physist, and regarded as the best experimentalist in the...

Availle 4 hours 32 minutes Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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Science

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Agnes von Blomberg Bensly - Our Journey to Sinai

Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. According to tradition, the monastery sits at the...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 41 minutes

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Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion

Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion

My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the masters of the country. The valour with which the natives of this island...

Gary Olman 15 hours 12 minutes

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Reference

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Eva March Tappan - Makers of Many Things

How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the dishes on our tables? Published in 1916, this children's book explains the origins of everyday items in an entertaining and informative...

Kara Shallenberg 2 hours 27 minutes

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Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05

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...

Lars Rolander and 9 more 17 hours 43 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Breaking Point

Mary Roberts Rinehart — «America's Agatha Christie,» as she used to be called — set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor,...

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 27 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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P. T. Barnum - Art of Money Getting

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and...

Jill Preston 1 hour 39 minutes

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Romance

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Jessie Fothergill - First Violin

May Wedderburn is a quiet provincial girl, living in small and seemingly boring Skernford. Underneath the dull exterior, there is mystery, suspicion and fear in this little town, surrounding the austere local...

Sandra G 15 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

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Laura Hayes - Three Girls in a Flat

Enid Yandell (October 6, 1870 — June 13, 1934) was an American sculptor who studied with Auguste Rodin and Frederick William MacMonnies. She created numerous portraits, garden pieces and small works as well as public...

Lee Ann Howlett 3 hours 25 minutes

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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3

*Non-fiction

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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3

This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 10 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1601 and...

Rhonda Federman and 5 more 3 hours 49 minutes UK Parliamentary Speeches

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