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Romance

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Susan Warner - Say and Seal, Volume 1

The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mrs. Derrick and her daughter, where the young man boards. Mr. Linden's idea of...

BookAngel7 and 13 more 14 hours 58 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

438

Nina Wilcox Putnam - Laughter Limited

When some people write the story of their life it is a sign that they are dead. There are in the motion-picture world also a class of dead ones who allow somebody else to write their biography. Dead from the neck up,...

MaryAnn and 5 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

518

Ernest Thompson Seton - Wild Animals I Have Known

Wild Animals I Have Known is an 1898 book by naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton. The first entry in a new genre of realistic wild-animal fiction, Seton's first collection of short stories quickly became one...

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

507

Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of «O Captain! My Captain!» This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014. «O Captain! My Captain!» is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt...

Ben Adams and 17 more 36 minutes

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Single author

457

Siegfried Sassoon - War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. He served in World War I on the Western Front and was awarded the Military...

KHand and 7 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

538

Percy Bysshe Shelley - To A Skylark

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight recordings of «To A Skylark.» This is the Fortnightly Poetry for August 8, 2014. To A Skylark was completed by Shelley in late June 1820. It was inspired by an evening walk in...

Algy Pug and 7 more 37 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Winter Day

Montgomery's poem on winter is an analogy for life, symbolizing the three life stages of youth, adulthood and old age.

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 15 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

487

Alexandre Dumas - Corsican Brothers

Alexandre Dumas weaves the compelling story of Siamese twins who are separated physically but never in spirit. When one of the brothers is murdered, the other leaves Corsica for Paris to avenge the killing. Dumas...

KHand and 2 more 3 hours 10 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

442

Edward Woodley Bowling - Climber's Dream

Edward Woodley Bowling was apparently a rector at the Church of All Saints in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England in the late 1800's, this poem is taken from Sagittulae, Random Verses. In this book's...

Anders Stigö and 9 more 38 minutes

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Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913

Modern (19th C)

479

Harris Newmark - Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913

Harris Newmark was personally acquainted with every person and family involved in the founding of the city of Los Angeles, California. He gathers into this well-written book his reminiscences of the period from 1853...

PJ Landau and 1 more 22 hours 41 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Henryk Sienkiewicz - In Desert and Wilderness

In Desert and Wilderness is a novel for children by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz. It tells the story of two children, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, and their adventures as they...

Beth Thomas and 14 more 13 hours 22 minutes

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Single author

517

Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil

This is a collection of French poems by Charles Baudelaire, originally titled «Les Fleurs du mal.» It was popular in the symbolist and modernist movements of the 19th century, and the poems are about decadence and...

sarahsyahiirah and 14 more 1 hour 28 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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