Kara Shallenberg

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Humorous Fiction

513

Henry James - International Episode

Two men visting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, miscommunication and cultural faux pas abound in this short but delightful novel....

Alex Foster and 5 more 3 hours 1 minute

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General Fiction

909

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard. In a series of ghostly visits, Scrooge visits his happy past, sees the difficulties of the present, views a bleak future, and in the end amends his mean...

Mark Bradford and 4 more 3 hours 14 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

545

John Masefield - Ballad of John Silver

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of A Ballad of John Silver , by John Masefield, to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day . This was the weekly poetry project for the week of...

Cori Samuel and 8 more 19 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

594

Gene Stratton-Porter - Girl of the Limberlost

A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp, during...

Kymm Zuckert and 9 more 11 hours 25 minutes

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Poetry

506

Mary E. Burt - Poems Every Child Should Know

This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are...

Kara Shallenberg 8 hours 8 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

602

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists...

Mary Anderson and 14 more 27 hours 16 minutes

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Children's Fiction

647

Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting...

Alex Foster and 12 more 11 hours

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Animals & Nature

615

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure … and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters — Mole, Rat, and Toad — generally lead upbeat and happy...

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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General Fiction

565

Henry Handel Richardson - Getting of Wisdom

The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on Henry Handel Richardson's experiences of her own school, the Prebysterian...

Chip and 9 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Samuel Butler - Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the...

Kirsten Ferreri and 13 more 11 hours 50 minutes

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Children's Fiction

670

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centred child who has been recently orphaned. She is accepted into the quiet and remote country house of an uncle, who has almost completely withdrawn into himself after...

Kara Shallenberg 9 hours 8 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War...

Kristin Hughes and 8 more 8 hours 56 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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