Kevin McAsh

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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

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Edgar Allan Poe - Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called...

Oscar Goff and 11 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the...

Denny Sayers and 11 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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George MacDonald - Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

George MacDonald is mainly known for his fantasy works and fairy tales such as At the Back of the North Wind and the Princess and the Goblin. However, during his life he was more famous for many more realistic...

Bookworm and 13 more 7 hours 5 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. These memos survive and continue to inspire others to this day. These writings...

Aegist and 7 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 003

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 003: a collection of 20 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Andrea L and 14 more 6 hours 29 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The...

Esther and 7 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Andersen's Fairy Tales

A collection of eighteen fairy tales — some popular, some lesser known — by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen. (Summary by Gesine)

Kara Shallenberg and 14 more 5 hours 51 minutes

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Science Fiction

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William Shuler Harris - Life in a Thousand Worlds

A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer of C. S. Lewis, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, after one too many mugs of cocoa....

Cori Samuel and 11 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

R. M. Ballantyne - Madman and The Pirate

R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of...

Anita Roy Dobbs and 5 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas

Children's Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas

Tom Swift is an inventor, and these are his adventures. The locale is the little town of Shopton in upstate New York, near Lake Carlopa. While some of Tom's inventions are not well-founded in a scientific sense,...

Anders Koskinen and 4 more 4 hours 19 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Fantastic Fiction

Lord Dunsany - Time and the Gods

Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was a London-born Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy. He was influenced by Algernon Swinburne, who wrote the line «Time and the Gods are at...

KentF and 7 more 4 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the present. Tom Swift is a genius inventor whose breakthroughs in technology...

Kevin McAsh 4 hours 9 minutes Tom Swift Adventure 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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