Betsie Bush

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading...

Michael Sirois and 19 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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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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Poetry

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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different recordings of The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge , by Edna St. Vincent Millay, to celebrate Halloween . This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October...

Andrea L and 7 more 22 minutes

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Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

Poetry

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Clement Clarke Moore - Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

Librivox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House. The land is...

Brad Bush and 9 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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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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Family

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Story Girl

The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise, Canada. Along with various cousins and other soon-to-be-friends, they meet...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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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Poetry

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E. Pauline Johnson - Song My Paddle Sings

Librivox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of «The Song My Paddle Sings» from the collection Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson. E. Pauline Johnson, also...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 13 more 37 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice,...

Marlo Dianne and 6 more 17 hours 35 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Beatrix Potter - Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great...

Kara Shallenberg and 15 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Frost - Fire and Ice

LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice , by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 27th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 22 more 15 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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