AnnaLisa Bodtker

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Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths

Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales from the Hudson River, and animal stories. — Summary by DrPGould

DrPGould and 15 more 14 hours 28 minutes The Junior Classics

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Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Frances Jenkins Olcott - Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud

Lots of stories and poems about elves, faeries and other wonderful wee folk. All read for you by LibriVox people who love them so what more could you ask for? If you want a break from the harsh 'real' world, come...

Beth Thomas and 13 more 9 hours 49 minutes

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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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William Drake Westervelt - Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods

William Drake Westervelt was an eminent scholar of Hawaiian culture, language, and history. In this capacity, he collected the ghost stories inlcuded in this volume. We hear of gods, ghosts, and demons, love and hate,...

John Cairns and 6 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3)

An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism,...

JayKitty76 and 18 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Wilhelm Meinhold - Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch

Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest working on the Island of Usedom, relates the story of Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The author assures us that the story he has to tell is based on a manuscript he found in...

Mark Nelson and 9 more 7 hours 3 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Wilhelm Hauff - Swanhilde, and other Fairy Tales

Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his fairy tales (Märchen). Some of his stories, such as the Caliph Stork found in this volume, are popular in German-speaking countries to this day....

thestorygirl and 8 more 6 hours 50 minutes

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Science

Jean-Henri Fabre - Insect Adventures

This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for children. It's made up of first-person narratives, and using his exceptional...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 12 more 5 hours 52 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Robert Lynd - Book of This and That

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. — Summary...

Tom Penn and 11 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 1

Action & Adventure Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 1

In this first story in Freaks on the Fells, Mr Sudberry, a successful London merchant takes his family on a Scottish highlands vacation. Over the course of the summer the family has lots of exciting adventures near...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 7 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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Anthologies

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Otto Leland Bohanan - Book of American Negro Poetry

The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was...

Jim Locke and 9 more 5 hours 4 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Julia Kavanagh - Pearl Fountain, and Other Fairy Tales

This is a little volume of fairy Tales by Irish novelists Bridget and Julia Kavanagh. The eleven stories are old-fashioned and original. — Summary by Carolin

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 6 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Margaret Widdemer - Haunted Hour; an anthology

I have not considered as ghost-poems anything but poems which related to the return of spirits to earth. They «The Blessed Damozel,» a poem of spirits in heaven, «La Belle Dame Sans Merci,» whose heroine may be a...

Nemo and 9 more 4 hours 45 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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