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Children's Fiction

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Pádraic Colum - Girl Who Sat by the Ashes

«Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was not the name that she herself called herself. She called herself Maid-alone...»...

Arctura and 3 more 2 hours 6 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?

The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just found a dead body in his bath, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez....

Kristin Hughes and 1 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Men

Little Men (published 1871) is considered the second book of the Little Women trilogy written by Louisa May Alcott. (The book Good Wives (1869) was originally the sequel to the novel Little Women (1868), however those...

E. Moulton and 5 more 9 hours 44 minutes

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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Action & Adventure Fiction

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E. W. Hornung - Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also published as The Black Mask ) is the second collection of stories in the Raffles series. After the dark turn of events at the end of The Gift of the...

Kristin Hughes 5 hours 39 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edith Howes - Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

A collection of three short stories about fairies, complete with good moral lessons (as every fairy tale should be). (Summary by Claire Goget)

Claire Goget 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Alfred John Church - Iliad for Boys and Girls

Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a style so that younger readers may follow the story. The Iliad for Boys and...

Lizzie Driver 4 hours 23 minutes

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Satire

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Charles Dickens - Hard Times

Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and...

Kirsten Ferreri and 9 more 10 hours 54 minutes

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Poetry

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Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe Poems

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 — 1849) is widely famed as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is best known for his works of horror, such as «The Tell Tale Heart.» However, and this is less known, Poe also wrote...

Shurtagal 1 hour 21 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Timaeus

«Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down...

Leni and 6 more 7 hours 51 minutes

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Poetry

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Paul Laurence Dunbar - Sympathy

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy , by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day . Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 15 more 26 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental children's novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885. It was a runaway hit for the magazine and was...

Mary Anderson and 5 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 1

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Clarica and 12 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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