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Gardening

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Robert Buist - Family Kitchen Gardener

The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order. It...

Bellona Times and 11 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Animals

534

Pliny the Elder - Natural History Volume 1

Naturalis Historia (Latin for «Natural History») is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and...

ontheroad and 11 more 7 hours 44 minutes The Natural History by Pliny

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

590

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a...

Martin Geeson and 15 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

506

John A. Joyce - Shakspere: Personal Recollections

A fictitious account of a «friend» of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Science

538

Charles Kingsley - Madam How and Lady Why

Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers (at least all the ones that were known in 1869) and gives...

alwpoe and 10 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

563

Frederick James Furnivall - Shakespeare: Life and Work

William Shakespeare: actor, poet, playwright. He is often called England's greatest writer, the Bard of Avon, a national treasure. But who was he? An average boy, born to an average family of the period; a romantic...

Lynne T and 3 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 036

A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members. The story of The Lamplighter (by Charles Dickens) is a special group reading, done by the following...

Shona and 13 more 7 hours 35 minutes Short Story Collections

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General Fiction

442

Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

390

Rose Macaulay - Making of a Bigot

“How various is man! How multiplied his experience, his outlook, his conclusions!”—H. Belloc. “And every single one of them is right.”—R. Kipling. Written while Macaulay worked in the Propaganda Department of...

Rhys Lawson and 6 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Harding's Luck

Harding's luck is sequel to E. Nesbit's «The House of Arden». It tells the story of Dickie Harding, a disabled boy, who one day accidentelly discovers an old magic, that allows him to travel into his own past. There...

Sonja and 6 more 7 hours 28 minutes

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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2

Action & Adventure Fiction

526

Benvenuto Cellini - Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2

Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct,...

P Moscato and 8 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Children's Fiction

594

Martha Finley - Elsie Dinsmore

Elsie, young and motherless, has never met her father and is being raised by her father's family. As a strong Christian, she has many trials within the unbelieving family. Her greatest comforts are her faith and her...

Robin and 6 more 7 hours 21 minutes Elsie Dinsmore Series

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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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