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Travel & Geography

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Travel Collection: Short Non-fiction

A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a village or town, or a particular voyage or train journey, or other travelogues...

KevinS and 7 more 4 hours 2 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 066

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Brian Dirkx and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Philosophy

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William Turner - History of Philosophy

The History of Philosophy is the exposition of philosophical opinions and of systems and schools of philosophy. It includes the study of the lives of philosophers, the inquiry into the mutual connection of schools and...

Leni and 22 more 27 hours 18 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Cowper - Inscription For A Stone

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Inscription For A Stone by William Cowper. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 12, 2019. — INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE Erected at the sowing of a grove of...

Brian Dirkx and 17 more 24 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting...

Michele Fry and 7 more 25 hours 36 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

618

Ernest Hemingway - Three Stories & Ten Poems

The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) The book entered into the public domain in 2019. — Summary by KevinS

KevinS 1 hour 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Animal Story Book

Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous sources. — Summary by Elsie Selwyn

Elsie Selwyn and 26 more 10 hours 33 minutes

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Science

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Margaret Warner Morley - Bee People

«The Honey-bees are buzzy-fuzzy little pepper pots» Thus this wonderful nature writer begins to tell us about bees, their habits, their way of living and their many contributions to the world and to ourselves. The...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)

Cooking

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Maurice Grenville Kains - Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)

Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kains gives a thorough introduction the the subject considering the history of...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Phillis Wheatley - To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28, 2019. — The Authoress, Phillis Wheatley, was a Negro...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 38 minutes

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Middle Ages/Middle History

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Edward Foord - Byzantine Empire

A concise and comprehensive guide to the Byzantine empire from Constantine to its dissolution. Foord explores in an accessible manner why it was important to history, the significance of noteworthy events, and how it...

Beth Thomas and 6 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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Middle Ages/Middle History

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Elizabeth O'Neill - England In The Middle Ages

A short study examining the historical framework of England from the period of the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century. The period from the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century may be...

KevinS 3 hours 12 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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