Anita Roy Dobbs

22 books

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers

This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is...

Andy Minter and 9 more 22 hours 25 minutes

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Detective Fiction

529

J. S. Fletcher - Middle Temple Murder

The dead body of a man is found on the steps to some chambers of Middle Temple Lane, near London's law courts. A journalist and a young lawyer start investigating. — This classic English murder mystery was written in...

Betsie Bush and 15 more 8 hours 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

576

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote - Vol. 1

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he...

Chip and 16 more 21 hours 16 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

720

James Joyce - Ulysses

NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places...

Hugh McGuire and 12 more 32 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Fiction

789

Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

615

James Fenimore Cooper - Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist...

Gord Mackenzie and 13 more 16 hours 44 minutes

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Children's Fiction

681

Carlo Collodi - Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was published in serial form between 1881 and 1883, and then completed as a book...

Sherry Crowther and 18 more 4 hours 35 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Bram Stoker - Dracula

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the...

Kara Shallenberg and 16 more 16 hours 31 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

563

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Art and Heart

This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 38 different recordings of Art and Heart, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This poem,...

Alan Davis Drake and 37 more 1 hour 10 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Alfred Binet - Mind and the Brain

The authorized translation of L’âme et le corps, F. Legge, editor “This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to...

J. M. Smallheer and 9 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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New

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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