Karen Savage

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E. Nesbit - Story of the Treasure Seekers

This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savage)

Karen Savage 4 hours 9 minutes

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Science Fiction

438

Paul W. Fairman - Ten From Infinity

It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars—for far out in space a signal was registered: Something...

Karen Savage 3 hours 55 minutes

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General Fiction

546

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Kilmeny of the Orchard

Eric Marshall is all that a well brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall & Company empire — and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother...

Sarah Jennings and 6 more 3 hours 47 minutes

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Science Fiction

454

Fritz Leiber - Big Time

A classic locked room mystery, in a not-so-classic setting. (Intro by Karen Savage)

Karen Savage 3 hours 43 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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General Fiction

452

Favourite Chapters Collection 002

A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderful clarity with which great ideas are expressed, and still others because...

Tim Makarios and 8 more 3 hours 24 minutes

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Science Fiction

483

Lester del Rey - Sky Is Falling

After dying in a terrible accident at a building site, Dave Hanson finds himself being brought back to life in a world where magic is real, and where the sky is breaking apart and falling. And he is expected to put it...

Karen Savage 3 hours 15 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

552

Joseph Conrad - Typhoon

Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a...

Russ Maxwell and 5 more 3 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

522

Unknown - Beowulf

Beowulf. [Translated by Francis Barton Gummere].This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who...

Kara Shallenberg and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Humorous Fiction

545

Bill Nye - Comic History of England

Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” Mowatt is a distinguished LibriVox volunteer, widely known for his continued...

Ezwa and 15 more 2 hours 54 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Cornelia Mee - Exercises in Knitting

Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain practical everyday items that knit up quickly with the busy homemaker in mind. At...

Sarah Jennings and 16 more 2 hours 54 minutes

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Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

Westerns

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Edward L. Wheeler - Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

This western, published around 1899, is a dime novel that has it all: roguish gun men, hostile Indians, chilvarous gentlemen to protect the hapless females, and — in Calamity Jane — even a female who can hold her...

Lucy Burgoyne and 8 more 2 hours 41 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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