Grant Hurlock

43 books

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Humorous Fiction

514

E. Nesbit - Lark

«The Lark» has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts entirely new and original. Two girls, Jane and Lucilla, are led by Jane's guardian to...

Grant Hurlock 9 hours 41 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

482

Fergus Hume - Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes...

Grant Hurlock 8 hours 21 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

412

Mason Long - Save the Girls

Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evil of prostitution by presenting a series of pathetic portraits of young...

Grant Hurlock 4 hours 43 minutes

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Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

Action & Adventure Fiction

450

Bampfylde Moore Carew - Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman,...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 31 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

428

Maria Gowen Brooks - Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri

Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the 19th century to Byron and Swinburne. In it she tells the story of an...

Grant Hurlock 6 hours 33 minutes

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Poetry

519

Short Poetry Collection 121

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2013.

Winston Tharp and 11 more 1 hour 52 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Humorous Fiction

638

Anton Chekhov - Kashtanka

«Kashtanka,» a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its eponymous heroine, a fox-faced, reddish dachshund-mix, whose name means 'little...

Grant Hurlock 49 minutes

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Short Stories

636

Short Story Collection Vol. 056

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 056: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Tolstoy, Gelett Burgess, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry and a...

Bellona Times and 8 more 10 hours 53 minutes Short Story Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

498

Ann Radcliffe - EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts

In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in order to spy on his girlfriend, Aura, and see if she really loves him. He does...

Grant Hurlock 56 minutes

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Poetry

483

Short Poetry Collection 115

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2012.

Alan Mapstone and 10 more 46 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

414

Guy Morton - Rangy Pete

Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of the Azure Hills). In this one, the Gary Cooper-esque title character, Rangy...

Grant Hurlock 9 hours 40 minutes

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Poetry

520

Short Poetry Collection 114

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2012.

Etel Buss and 17 more 1 hour 25 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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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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