Jean Bascom

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Travel Fiction

486

Washington Irving - Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from «Rip Van Winkle» and «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» — the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous — other tales include «Roscoe», «The Broken Heart», «The Art of Book-making», «A Royal...

Easton and 15 more 15 hours 21 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Andrew David King and 26 more 24 hours 5 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time

A history of Russia from 500 B.C. to 1855 A.D., written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, the brother of Jacob Abbott. (Summary by Jean Bascom)

Jean Bascom and 4 more 18 hours 30 minutes

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Single Author Collections

476

E. Nesbit - Literary Sense

A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Many of her books have been made into television series...

Jean Bascom and 5 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

448

Anthony Trollope - Cousin Henry

Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite niece, Isabel, or a male heir? The story turns on the trouble that arises when Indefer fails to tell anyone his final decision before...

Jean Bascom 5 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

451

Anthony Trollope - Claverings

«I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict.» — the author The Claverings is the best wrought of the novels designed for The Cornhill, and as...

bobolink and 9 more 19 hours 56 minutes

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Family

506

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Fair Barbarian

The setting is a small English village in the 19th century. When her niece shows up on her doorstep unexpectedly, a quiet spinster finds her life turned upside down. (Summary by Linda Andrus)

Linda Andrus and 13 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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*Non-fiction

445

William Ruschenberger - Elements of Entomology

The Elements of Entomology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is a succinct little textbook from 1845 that presents an introduction to...

Mich_elle and 4 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Cowper - Flatting-Mill

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Flatting-Mill by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 1, 2011. William Cowper (pronounced «Cooper»)was an English poet and hymnodist....

CalmDragon and 13 more 24 minutes

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Poetry

476

James Russell Lowell - Song (Lowell version)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of Song by James Russell Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1, 2011. James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He...

David Lawrence and 6 more 8 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906

General Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world...

Cata and 14 more 9 hours 10 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 022

A collection of nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, science, women's...

Daniel Christopher June and 14 more 5 hours 7 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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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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