Hugh McGuire

49 books

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of «buccaneers and buried gold.» Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a...

Mark Bradford and 12 more 7 hours 29 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

618

James Fenimore Cooper - Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist...

Gord Mackenzie and 13 more 16 hours 44 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

565

Joseph Conrad - Secret Agent

The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers...

Hugh McGuire and 11 more 9 hours 53 minutes

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Poetry

467

Siegfried Sassoon - Road

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Siegfried Sassoon's The Road , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 13 minutes

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Animals & Nature

634

Beatrix Potter - Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great...

Kara Shallenberg and 15 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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Science Fiction

511

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator. (Summary written by...

Eric Connover and 11 more 8 hours 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure

617

E. Nesbit - Five Children and It

This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 5 hours 38 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

586

Robert Frost - Fire and Ice

LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice , by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 27th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 22 more 15 minutes

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*Non-fiction

547

Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince

ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532,...

Chip and 6 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

525

Robert Louis Stevenson - Cow

Librivox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Brad Bush and 13 more 9 minutes

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Stephen Leacock - Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada

This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal people. These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a...

Aaron Breceda and 5 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Bram Stoker - Dracula

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the...

Kara Shallenberg and 16 more 16 hours 31 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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