Justin S Barrett

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Frank Lewis Dyer - Edison, His Life and Inventions

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, «It is designed in...

Justin S Barrett and 21 more 29 hours 42 minutes

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Reference

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Grenville Kleiser - Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of...

Betsie Bush and 45 more 16 hours

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is...

Justin S Barrett and 26 more 14 hours 54 minutes

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Religious Fiction

Robert Hugh Benson - Lord of the World

“Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man,...

Maria Therese and 11 more 10 hours 35 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Fancies Versus Fads

A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Short Stories

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Saki - Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki (December 18, 1870 – November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro. Saki's world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless but...

Justin Brett and 6 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Unknown - Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1

This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a...

Maria Celano and 18 more 3 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Jennie Irene Mix - Mighty Animals

A book about dinosaurs written for children. In short, easy to read chapters designed to keep the interest of juvenile readers. (Summary by Guero)

Ann Boulais and 7 more 1 hour 58 minutes

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Poetry

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Folk Ballad Collection 001

Librivox’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection).

Rebecca Dekker and 9 more 39 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Katharine Lee Bates - Blood Road

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Blood Road by Katharine Lee Bates. This was the New Year's Weekly Poetry project for December 30. 2018. — Katharine Lee Bates was an American writer, poet,...

Bruce Kachuk and 18 more 35 minutes

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Poetry

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Apology

LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 different recordings of The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 2, 2007.

Alan Davis Drake and 26 more 31 minutes

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Poetry

Rosamund Marriott Watson - To My Cat

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of To My Cat by Rosamund Marriott Wilson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 19th, 2007

Alan Clare and 14 more 17 minutes

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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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