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Biography & Autobiography

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Emily Clemens Pearson - Gutenberg and the Art of Printing

This book is readable account of one of the greatest inventions of modern time: moveable type. Gutenberg's work lays the foundation for the printing press, without which the world would look very different… It reads...

Availle and 12 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

448

Andrew Barton Paterson - Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window into the past and the culture of the region. — Summary by A. Gramour

Beth Thomas and 7 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Poetry

474

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables of La Fontaine

Jean de la Fontaine's fables were very well-known all over Europe during his life, and are now slowly being rediscovered. This edition contains 240 fables or fairy tales and a biography of Jean de la Fontaine and...

RogerMathewson and 19 more 11 hours 57 minutes

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War & Military

433

International Committee of the Red Cross - Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949

«This Convention represents the fourth updated version of the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick following those adopted in 1864, 1906 and 1929. It contains 64 articles. These provide protection for the wounded...

BettyB and 5 more 8 hours 46 minutes

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Poetry

489

Maria J. Moss - Poetical Cook-Book

This is an interesting mix of recipes and poetry about cookery and food. The author has written this book during and in the aftermath of the civil war in the United States. The recipes are sound and can be used still...

Matthew Datcher and 7 more 2 hours 49 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

450

Clara Doty Bates - On The Tree Top

A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. — Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman.

BettyB and 6 more 2 hours 19 minutes

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 07, Dec. 16, 1879

Short Stories

488

Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 07, Dec. 16, 1879

Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft...

A LibriVox Volunteer and 6 more 1 hour 18 minutes Harper's Young People

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*Non-fiction

466

Letters from Victorian Pioneers

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response...

Beth Thomas and 15 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Poetry

466

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Verses for Children

This is a volume of verses by JHG Ewing. Ms. Ewing was best known as an author of short stories and fairy tales, but this is a volume of rhymes for children. — Summary by Carolin

BettyB and 15 more 2 hours 59 minutes

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Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Travel Fiction

562

Jules Verne - Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes the Russians enemy agents in an English colony. Summary by Kim.

Ryan and 8 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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White Elephant And Other Tales from Old India Retold

Short Stories

447

Georgene Faulkner - White Elephant And Other Tales from Old India Retold

This book is a collection of short stories from India. — Summary by sid

Beth Thomas and 4 more 1 hour 48 minutes

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Poetry

467

Hannah Flagg Gould - Youth's Coronal

This is a volume of poetry for children by Hannah Flagg Gould, containing several fables and other verses with a little moral. «Accept, then, my young Friends, this new CORONAL of the little flowers of poesy which...

BettyB and 5 more 2 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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