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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

937

Lord Dunsany - Fifty-One Tales

Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 50 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

828

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - School For Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy was first performed in 1777 and focuses on the intrigues and scandals of the British upper classes. Lady Sneerwell wants to marry Charles Surface, while Joseph Surface wants to marry...

2 hours 56 minutes

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*Non-fiction

800

Christiaan Huygens - Treatise on Light

Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book explains how light travels (i.e., that it has a certain velocity), and what...

Availle 4 hours 43 minutes

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837

Josephine Butler - Native Races and the War

Josephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era British feminist who was strongly committed to liberal reforms. As a result of her efforts, international organisations including the International Abolitionist...

SallyMc and 1 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

706

Arthur W. Marchmont - Dash for a Throne

The young Count von Rudloff got himself into so much trouble with the Imperial Family in Berlin, that he sees no other way out of it than to fake his own death. Stumbling through different identities, he finally...

Crln Yldz Ksr 12 hours 4 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

905

Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of Alaska

Editor Katharine Berry Judson collates and presents a narrative history of Alaskan Myths. Originally gathered and recorded by government ethnologists, she paints an overall picture of Alaskan history as told by its...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading)

Action & Adventure Fiction

849

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading)

The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards. Some of Holmes's...

4 hours 5 minutes

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Poetry

1.5K

Short Poetry Collection 113

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

Cynthia Moyer and 16 more 1 hour 27 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

912

Richard Harding Davis - My Buried Treasure

«This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story,...

Crln Yldz Ksr 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

803

Alfred John Church - Stories from Virgil

Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as «The Horse of Wood» and «The Love and Death of Dido,» as well as many others perhaps less...

Bill Boerst 5 hours 13 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

937

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Morals (Moralia), Book 2

The Moralia (loosely translatable as «Matters relating to customs») of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They give an insight into...

Alan Brown and 14 more 18 hours 3 minutes

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Wopsy: The Adventures of a Guardian Angel

Religion

787

Gerard F. Scriven - Wopsy: The Adventures of a Guardian Angel

Wopsy is the story of a very young Guardian Angel, sent to watch over a pagan baby in Africa. Wopsy desperately wants his baby's soul to become white and clean in baptism, but what is a small guardian angel to do when...

Maria Therese 1 hour 24 minutes

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