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Literary Fiction

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1891 Collection

A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 5 hours 51 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Samuel R. Delany - Jewels of Aptor

Delany's first novel, from 1962, serves as a sort of prologue to the subsequent Captives of the Flame, 1963. Set several centuries after the Great Fire — a nuclear holocaust — a young woman seeks her destiny with the...

Bellona Times 6 hours 20 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

514

Gene Stratton-Porter - At the Foot of the Rainbow

This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear friend Dannie for years. His wife Mary, who loves another. And finally...

Kevin W. Davidson and 5 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Poetry

482

Short Poetry Collection 117

This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2013.

Etel Buss and 10 more 37 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

459

Grant M. Overton - Women Who Make Our Novels

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary...

MaryAnn and 13 more 10 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

427

Samuel R. Delany - Captives of the Flame

Chip Delany's 2nd novel — the first is The Jewels of Aptor (1962) — published by Ace Books in 1963. Set in the 35th Century, the survivors of a nuclear war live on the coastline and an island in a kingdom ruled by a...

Bellona Times 5 hours 48 minutes

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Science Fiction

514

Short Science Fiction Collection 048

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

Lynne T and 11 more 9 hours 57 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

486

Frances Alice Forbes - Life of St. Vincent de Paul

Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 — 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when galleys were part of any countries' war machine and these galleys were rowed...

Bellona Times and 1 more 1 hour 57 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

496

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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, slavery, science, education, humor,...

Sue Anderson and 12 more 4 hours 26 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Romance

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Will Lillibridge - Arcadia in Avernus

Unhappy wife leaves marriage of convenience for another man, the couple running away to the Dakota prairie to set up housekeeping. All seems romantically well… until the ex shows up. Surprisingly modern (if a little...

Bellona Times 2 hours 46 minutes

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General Fiction

646

Short Story Collection Vol. 055

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by J. M. Barrie, O. Henry, Jerome, Joyce, London, Saki,...

Arnie Horton and 12 more 6 hours 27 minutes Short Story Collections

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General Fiction

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Short Story Collection Vol. 054

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 054: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Lars Rolander and 11 more 6 hours 55 minutes Short Story Collections

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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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