Kristin LeMoine

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial. Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils,...

Stephan Möbius and 23 more 17 hours 2 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned at an infant he is found by the nymph...

Kristin LeMoine 3 hours 27 minutes

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Poetry

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William Butler Yeats - Where My Books Go

Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of the short poem Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

AliceG and 12 more 9 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading...

Michael Sirois and 19 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02)

This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II. In this chapter we see the restoration of the House of Stuart. The mood of the people sours toward...

Chip and 4 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English...

Stephan Möbius and 10 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard Cœur-de-Lion at the...

Kristin LeMoine and 7 more 19 hours 25 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Family

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Story Girl

The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise, Canada. Along with various cousins and other soon-to-be-friends, they meet...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Butler Yeats - Song of Wandering Aengus

LibriVox volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus , by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 17 more 26 minutes

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Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince

ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532,...

Chip and 6 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edward Lear - Owl and the Pussycat

Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871. Its most notable feature is the introduction of the...

Amy Boatman and 18 more 37 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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