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Arthur Griffiths - Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1

Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' — the warriors against crime...

Lynne T and 6 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Curiosities of Street Literature

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about...

Ed Humpal and 27 more 21 hours 22 minutes

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Uganda's White Man of Work: A Story of Alexander M. Mackay

Biography & Autobiography

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Sophia Lyon Fahs - Uganda's White Man of Work: A Story of Alexander M. Mackay

When Henry Stanley (the famous journalist who went to find David Livingstone) was in Africa, he met a king named Mutesa. This king had started believing his tribe's Ugandan traditions about spirits and devils. Then...

KHand and 5 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody

Epistolary Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody

«Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary novels never meet? In so little a world their paths must often have crossed, their...

BettyB and 10 more 3 hours 36 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

454

Rosalie Kaufman - Our Young Folks' Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch , Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers. In the preface...

April Walters and 14 more 18 hours 40 minutes

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Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

Fantasy Fiction

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William Morris - Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

acousticwave and 11 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

479

J. M. Barrie - Sentimental Tommy

«J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tommy novels, as they are collectively referred to, are also about a child who does...

Sandra Cullum and 10 more 11 hours 45 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Saki - Chronicles of Clovis

This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them...

Anna Simon and 14 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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Family Life

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Robert Kemp Philp - Reason Why

This collection of useful information on «Common Things» is put in the interesting form of «Why and Because,» and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of...

Anusha Iyer and 17 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Pamela, Volume 2

Pamela, tells the story of a 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. He abducts her, locks her up in one...

Michele Eaton and 13 more 23 hours

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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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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 155

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2016.

Craig Campbell and 15 more 1 hour 2 minutes Short Poetry 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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