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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 13 hours 39 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Off on a Comet

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form...

Patrick Wells and 14 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

Modern (20th C)

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William Hanford Edwards - Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America.(summary by Ian Hatley)

Ian Hatley and 17 more 10 hours 26 minutes

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General Fiction

H. G. Wells - Modern Utopia

H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the remainder of his life. One of his most ambitious early attempts at portraying...

Alisson Veldhuis and 8 more 10 hours 11 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Abraham Merritt - Metal Monster

The Metal Monster is an Abraham Merritt fantasy novel. Dr. Goodwin is on a botanical expedition in the Himalayas. There he meets Dick Drake, the son of one of his old science acquaintances. They are witnesses of a...

Lucy Burgoyne and 12 more 9 hours 59 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Francis Marion Crawford - American Politician

In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and the business of making money go hand in hand. A Senate seat suddenly opens up...

Maire Rhode and 5 more 9 hours 28 minutes

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General Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in...

Arielle Lipshaw and 10 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Cinema Murder

Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London. He finds out that his wealthy cousin Douglas has been seeing his girl friend Beatrice behind his back. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his...

Julie Levi and 13 more 8 hours 6 minutes

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Other religions

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Buddhist Writings

An anthology of Buddhist scriptures, appropriate as an introduction to its vast literature, or as a sampler for those who want to better understand Buddhism. The selections in this anthology are primarily from the...

Leon Mire and 16 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Jacob Abbott - Cleopatra

A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.

Alana Jordan and 8 more 6 hours 28 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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James Thomas Fields - Owl Critic

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Owl Critic by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 3, 2011. James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 – April 24, 1881) was an...

Brian Morgan and 22 more 1 hour 27 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Frost - Birches

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.

Alan Davis Drake and 12 more 48 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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