Kara Shallenberg

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Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

Poetry

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Clement Clarke Moore - Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

Librivox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of «buccaneers and buried gold.» Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a...

Mark Bradford and 12 more 7 hours 29 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell, one of the greatest seduction speeches of all time. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 23th,...

Alan Davis Drake and 10 more 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House. The land is...

Brad Bush and 9 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Warden

Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and...

Andy Minter and 6 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English...

Stephan Möbius and 10 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

James Fenimore Cooper - Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist...

Gord Mackenzie and 13 more 16 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Road to Oz

The Road to Oz takes Dorothy and her friends on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honor of Ozma's birthday. It all starts near her home on Uncle Henry's farm in Kansas when she tries to help a shaggy stranger...

Kara Shallenberg 4 hours 45 minutes

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Poetry

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William Topaz McGonagall - Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay , by William McGonagall, to celebrate April Fool's Day. Scottish poet William McGonagall is widely considered to be one...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 26 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Leslie Brooke - Golden Goose Book

A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which can be viewed along with the Gutenberg text at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15661 . We see a number of stories in which kindness is rewarded...

Kara Shallenberg 31 minutes

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Romance

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate...

Tina Tilney and 19 more 16 hours 3 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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