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Science Fiction

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Harry Harrison - Planet of the Damned

Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical and mental competition among the best and smartest people on Anvhar. But...

John Rose and 3 more 6 hours

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*Non-fiction

506

Garrett P. Serviss - Curiosities of the Sky

Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been penetrated."-Excerpt from the Preface of Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett...

Laura Caldwell and 5 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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Detective Fiction

507

Anna Katharine Green - Strange Disappearance

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally...

Nichole Karl and 8 more 5 hours 35 minutes

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Science Fiction

459

Short Science Fiction Collection 011

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology....

Giles Baker and 4 more 4 hours 44 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

547

Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core

This is the first book in the Pellucidar series. Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The stories initially involve the adventures...

Great Plains and 2 more 4 hours 38 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

510

Horace Walpole - Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th...

Great Plains 3 hours 58 minutes

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Historical Fiction

553

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Roger Melin and 9 more 3 hours 52 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Law

564

Fabian Franklin - What Prohibition Has Done to America

In What Prohibition Has Done to America , Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and...

Joshua B. Christensen and 5 more 2 hours 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

516

Scott Hemphill - First Fifty Digits of Pi

56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string of numbers: each reader presents just the first 50 digits in...

Jonathan Horniblow and 18 more 52 minutes

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Poetry

561

Short Poetry Collection 062

LibriVox's New Short Poetry Collection 062: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Alana Jordan and 16 more 39 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

474

Edgar Allan Poe - Evening Star

LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Poe's 200th birthday, January 19th, 2009.

Anne Cheng and 28 more 32 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

489

Joseph Mary Plunkett - I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red

LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red by Joseph Mary Plunkett. This was the weekly poetry project for February 8th, 2009.

Andrea Fiore and 23 more 29 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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