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Adrian Praetzellis
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Children's Fiction
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Edward Lear - Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets
A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the «Owl and the Pussycat» and a recipe for Amblongus Pie, which begins «Take 4 pounds (say 4½ pounds) of...
Adrian Praetzellis
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Children's Non-fiction
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Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Kari the Elephant
The adventures of an Indian boy and his beloved elephant. Born near Calcutta, Mukerji won the Newbury Medal for children's fiction. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)
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Action & Adventure
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Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass (version 2)
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a...
Adrian Praetzellis
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Political Science
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Theodor Herzl - Jewish State
Read in English, this is a pivotal document in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Herzl designed this work to elevate the discussion of «the Jewish Question» so it would «no longer take the form of...
Adrian Praetzellis
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General Fiction
438
Amy Levy - Reuben Sachs: A Sketch
Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but unexeptional family. But without Reuben, a woman like Judith might have a bleak...
Adrian Praetzellis
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Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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Ghost Story Collection 004
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles...
Adrian Praetzellis
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4 hours
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Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections
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Action & Adventure Fiction
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John Buchan - Thirty-nine Steps
Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred...
Adrian Praetzellis
4 hours
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Short Stories
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Short Story Collection Vol. 012
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 012: a collection of 11 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
Adrian Praetzellis
and 4 more
4 hours
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General Fiction
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Israel Zangwill - King of Schnorrers
Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of late 18th-century London. Manasseh is far from being a humble panhandler for,...
Adrian Praetzellis
4 hours
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Detective Fiction
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Israel Zangwill - Big Bow Mystery
It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says,...
Adrian Praetzellis
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General Fiction
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Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey...
Adrian Praetzellis
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Fantastic Fiction
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Algernon Blackwood - Jimbo
Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kids and adults, though parts may be too scary for younger children (who'd...
Adrian Praetzellis
5 hours
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Stolen Bacillus and other stories
H. G. Wells
Eight Keys to Eden
Mark Clifton
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
William Blake
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916
Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Around the World with the Children
Frank G. Carpenter
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