Adrian Praetzellis

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John Muir - My First Summer in the Sierra

The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. The antics...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 13 minutes

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Children's Fiction

496

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows (version 3)

The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy...

Adrian Praetzellis 6 hours 55 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

521

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 52 minutes

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General Fiction

588

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 5 hours 6 minutes

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Detective Fiction

492

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 5 hours 5 minutes

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General Fiction

506

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 25 minutes

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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 24 minutes Short 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 20 minutes

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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 and 7 more 4 hours 5 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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General Fiction

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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 4 hours 2 minutes

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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 3 hours 30 minutes

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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 3 hours 24 minutes

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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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