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George F. Chambers - Story of Eclipses

Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing the people on Earth, we now know that a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon...

Availle and 9 more 7 hours 2 minutes

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T. W. H. Crosland - To A Hotel Keeper

We have all had mysterious charges added on to our hotel bills. — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 6 more 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. III

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap...

Lynne T and 24 more 46 hours 11 minutes

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Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Charles John Tibbits - Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish

In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors of Folklore—Afanasief, Erben, Wojcicki, Glinski, etc. The chap-book tales,...

DrPGould and 9 more 4 hours 38 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Bill Nye - Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor

«What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they eat it by accident, is a Railway Guide which will be just as good two years ago as...

DrPGould and 14 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Anthologies

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It Can Be Done

This book contains many poems of inspiration, joy and hope. Just the thing to encourage our spirits and strengthen our backbone when troubles seem too much. The purpose of this volume is to bring men courage and...

Phil Chenevert and 29 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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James Whitcomb Riley - In A Box

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect....

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 14 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 067

A collection of 20 short stories selected and read by Librivox readers in English.

Dan Gurzynski and 4 more 5 hours 1 minute Short Story Collections

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Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Catherine Crowe - Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers

The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are...

Marialuisa Ruiz and 12 more 17 hours 39 minutes

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War & Military

Anonymous - Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making — all far from home, while pitting themselves against the elements. The romance of the...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 14 hours 11 minutes

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Anthologies

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John Lomax - Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. «Cowboy Songs and...

Larry Wilson and 21 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Antiquity

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William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...

alaskart and 8 more 7 hours 31 minutes World's Famous Orations

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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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