Kristin Hughes

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Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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LibriVox volunteers - Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Elizabeth the same woman, is she married with children, is her husband a spy?...

Alan Davis Drake and 11 more 4 hours 26 minutes

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 08)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 08)

In this chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England we see conflict between James II and his subjects. James is Catholic but rules a Protestant country. There are some serious stand-offs with colleges at...

Rosalind Wills and 4 more 4 hours 6 minutes

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Olive Green - Spinster Book

A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling men and women, love letters, marriage and spinsterhood. (Summary by Kristin...

Kristin Hughes and 8 more 4 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Kenneth Grahame - Golden Age

The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in London by The Bodley Head, and in Chicago by Stone & Kimball. (The Prologue...

Erin Hastings and 9 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Ethel C. Pedley - Dot and the Kangaroo

Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian outback and is eventually befriended by a kangaroo and several other...

Lucy Burgoyne and 9 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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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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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 2)

General Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 2)

After hearing Mr. Enfield's account of a distressing event involving Edward Hyde, the heir of his friend, Henry Jekyll, John Utterson is convinced that Jekyll's relationship with Hyde is built on something...

Kristin Hughes 2 hours 49 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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Fantastic Fiction

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Arthurian Miscellany

A collection of works that explore the rich and evocative legend of King Arthur. The exploits of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been a staple of British literature through the centuries, drawing...

Alan Davis Drake and 6 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Swoop!

The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — «England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room.» (ch....

Kristin Hughes 2 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Charles Wayland Towne - Foolish Dictionary

«The Foolish Dictionary» was written by «Gideon Wurdz» (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 1904. According to the beginning of the book, it is «An exhausting work of reference to un-certain...

Maddie and 10 more 1 hour 45 minutes

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Poetry

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Long Poems Collection 004

Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Sam Fold and 6 more 1 hour 32 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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