Andy Minter (1934-2017)

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General Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Card

The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin — His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the...

Andy Minter 7 hours 58 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Warden

Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and...

Andy Minter and 6 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

635

Arthur Ransome - Old Peter's Russian Tales

Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively...

Andy Minter and 6 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

Poetry

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Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox — fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches — and each volume will be a pot pourri of...

Carl Manchester and 12 more 7 hours 40 minutes Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection - 5 Volumes

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Detective Fiction

491

Short Mystery Story Collection 001

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Mark Nelson and 8 more 7 hours 18 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Humorous Fiction

486

Martin Ross - Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.

This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leaves the army to take up a position of Resident Magistrate in the West of...

Andy Minter 7 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

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Sabine Baring-Gould - Bladys of the Stewponey

The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will...

Andy Minter 6 hours 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

516

Lloyd Osbourne - Wrong Box

The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have...

Andy Minter 6 hours 20 minutes

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Short Stories

674

Short Story Collection Vol. 048

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 048: a collection of 19 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Kamna and 10 more 6 hours 17 minutes Short Story Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

606

Anthony Hope - Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania...

Andy Minter 5 hours 42 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

524

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 016

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, literature, sports,...

Gregg Margarite and 10 more 5 hours 30 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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General Fiction

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Saki - When William Came

We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is another — except that this one is set in 1913 and the 'William' of the title is...

Andy Minter 5 hours 21 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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