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Humorous Fiction

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Short Story Collection Vol. 043

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 043: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Tom Crawford and 12 more 7 hours 56 minutes Short Story Collections

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Children's Fiction

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Richard Barnum - Squinty the Comical Pig

«This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors to write children's tales, and gave them „house names“. The „name“ of the author...

jedopi and 2 more 2 hours 17 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity — he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman,...

Phil Griffiths 7 hours 12 minutes

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Political Science

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Frédéric Bastiat - Essays on Political Economy

Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this definition, Bastiat concluded that the law cannot defend life, liberty and...

Katie Riley 7 hours 16 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Orville Wright - Early History of the Airplane

The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the...

Availle 1 hour 33 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Bertrand Russell - Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British «revolt against idealism» in the early 1900s and is...

Todd Garrison and 4 more 5 hours 51 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations, Book 5

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of...

Stephen Escalera 10 hours 51 minutes The Wealth of Nations

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Olive Schreiner - Story of an African Farm

The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults — Waldo, Em and Lyndall — who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late...

SallyMc 10 hours 26 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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John Muir - Travels in Alaska

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this...

Esther and 9 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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May Kellogg Sullivan - Woman Who Went to Alaska

Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have had the pleasure of visiting Alaska via a luxurious cruise ship, where we...

Karen Commins 10 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

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John Neihardt - Song of Hugh Glass

This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 — just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians — and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the...

Nathan 2 hours 21 minutes

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Christianity - Biographies

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Norman F. Langford - King Nobody Wanted

In a very real and interesting way, The King Nobody Wanted tells the story of Jesus. Where the actual words of the Bible are used, they are from the King James Version. But the greater part of the story is told in...

Dawn Larsen 3 hours 30 minutes

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