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Published 1900 onward

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Michael O'Halloran

The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to “Be Square!” This is a warm and joyous story of how Michael makes life...

Mary Anderson 14 hours 28 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

730

James Joyce - Ulysses

NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places...

Hugh McGuire and 12 more 32 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Fiction

530

Kenneth Grahame - Dream Days

Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five...

Catharine Eastman 4 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

535

Herman Melville - Typee

Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America...

Michael Scherer 11 hours 42 minutes

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Romance

517

Joseph Bédier - Tristan and Iseult

This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in tragedy. This story predates that of Lancelot and Guinevere, and is one of the...

Joy Chan 2 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

588

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of «buccaneers and buried gold.» Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a...

Mark Bradford and 12 more 7 hours 29 minutes

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Children's Fiction

809

Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri,...

John Greenman 6 hours 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure

705

Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House. The land is...

Brad Bush and 9 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Short Stories

538

Gustave Flaubert - Three Short Works

Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in 19th century...

David Barnes 3 hours 5 minutes

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Detective Fiction

543

G. K. Chesterton - Wisdom of Father Brown

This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large...

Martin Clifton 7 hours 17 minutes

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Animals & Nature

562

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows (version 2)

This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure… and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters — Mole, Rat, and Toad — generally lead upbeat and happy...

Mark F. Smith 6 hours 47 minutes

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Science Fiction

641

H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English...

Stephan Möbius and 10 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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