David Lawrence

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Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

Modern (19th C)

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Eliza P. Donner Houghton - Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the «westering fever» of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants...

Alana Jordan and 7 more 10 hours 11 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Violet Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Violet Fairy Book (1901) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew...

BDSEmpire and 19 more 10 hours 4 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Life and Lillian Gish

An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star known in her heyday as the First Lady of American Cinema. Albert Bigelow Paine chronicles Gish's early life, her close relationship with her...

Tomas Peter and 11 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Henry L. Williams - Lincoln Story Book

Subtitle: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form — compiled by Henry L. Williams The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago...

Ernst Schnell and 33 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Bob Brown - Complete Book of Cheese

Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York and summed them all up in this book. Born in Chicago, he was graduated...

Carl Manchester and 14 more 9 hours 42 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. — Summary by David Lawrence

David Lawrence and 21 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

466

Emerson Hough - Covered Wagon

«Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families.» This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oregon Trail, just before the California Gold Rush. It is the story of a wagon train bound...

Lynne T and 9 more 9 hours 26 minutes

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James Joyce in Context, Vol. 1: Telemachus

Literary Collections

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James Joyce in Context, Vol. 1: Telemachus

This is a project invented and created by LibriVox volunteers. It collects various works which James Joyce quotes and refers to in his epic novel Ulysses , and provides them in audio form. Perfect for Joyce...

Peter O'Sullivan and 16 more 9 hours 15 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Anatole France - Gods are Athirst

The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. The story follows the young Parisian painter Évariste...

Nicholas Clifford and 12 more 8 hours 32 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

428

Amelia E. Barr - Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)

The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love...

David Lawrence 8 hours 15 minutes

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Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

Fantasy Fiction

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William Morris - Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

acousticwave and 11 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Book of Snobs

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence—I show that the...

Julie VW and 19 more 7 hours 21 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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