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Lyric

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Robert Bridges - Eros and Psyche

Bridges' Eros and Psyche retells the Eros (= Cupid) and Psyche myth first recorded by Lucius Apuleius in his book The Golden Ass. The poem is divided into twelve cantos — one for each of the twelve months of the...

Nathan 2 hours 11 minutes

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Bibles

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American Standard Version - Bible (ASV) 13: 1 Chronicles

The Books of Chronicles (Hebrew Divrei Hayyamim, דברי הימים, Greek Paralipomenon, Παραλειπομένων) are part of the Hebrew Bible (Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament). In the Masoretic Text, it appears as the...

Sam Stinson 2 hours 14 minutes Bible (American Standard Version)

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 041

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 041: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Gregg Margarite and 13 more 7 hours 18 minutes Short Story Collections

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Published 1900 onward

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Ben Ames Williams - All the Brothers Were Valiant

Joel Shore, newly appointed captain of the whaling ship Nathan Ross following his brother's apparent demise as captain of the same ship, elects to make his first cruise as captain to the very location where his...

Roger Melin 3 hours 50 minutes

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Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse

General Fiction

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Anne Wales Abbot - Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse

The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her...

David Lawrence and 12 more 4 hours 22 minutes

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Comedy

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Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya (subtitled “Scenes From Country Life”) is a tragicomedy by Anton Chekhov. It is set on the failing country estate of a retired professor, Serebrakoff, who returns after a long absence with his beautiful...

1 hour 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Blockade Runners

Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his...

Mark F. Smith 2 hours 2 minutes

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Romance

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Charles Norris Williamson - Princess Passes

An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only loves her money, so she does what anyone might do: she bolts for Europe, dons male...

Grant Hurlock 11 hours 36 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Richard Harris Barham - Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series

The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first...

Grant Hurlock 9 hours 41 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Lester del Rey - Sky Is Falling

After dying in a terrible accident at a building site, Dave Hanson finds himself being brought back to life in a world where magic is real, and where the sky is breaking apart and falling. And he is expected to put it...

Karen Savage 3 hours 15 minutes

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Westerns

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Max Brand - Night Horseman

A man, a dog, and a horse. The call of the wild geese. A very smart doctor from the east who finds there is a lot to learn from these desert people. A woman loved by three men. A gunslinger who has a debt to settle....

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 48 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history...

Leni and 20 more 14 hours 50 minutes

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