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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction....

Scott Robbins and 12 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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J. S. Fletcher - Dead Men's Money

This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems… (Summary by Gesine)

Esther and 12 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Typhoon

Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a...

Russ Maxwell and 5 more 3 hours 3 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 029

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 029: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Alan Davis Drake and 11 more 37 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Science Fiction

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Jules Verne - Round the Moon

Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel. It was later combined with...

Laurie Anne Walden and 6 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Memoirs

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Catharine Parr Traill - Backwoods of Canada

The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superior education, as she is to induce them to discard all irrational and...

Esther 8 hours 34 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Burgess Animal Book for Children

Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of...

Laurie Anne Walden and 16 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses

The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton....

Jeremy Pavier and 1 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Chemistry

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Justus von Liebig - Familiar Letters on Chemistry

Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and is known for his discovery of nitrogen as an essential plant nutrient. These letters “were...

J. M. Smallheer and 5 more 4 hours 12 minutes

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Anthologies

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Insomnia Collection Vol. 001

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented...

Cori Samuel and 9 more 6 hours 2 minutes

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Poetry

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Lewis Carroll - Jabberwocky

LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky , by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 21st, 2007.

sir_darwen and 31 more 56 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William H. Barker - West African Folk Tales

A collection of folk tales mostly centred around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as either a spider, a human or a combination of both. Thus many of the stories...

Lizzie Driver and 11 more 2 hours 36 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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