Laura Caldwell

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James Baldwin - Fifty Famous Stories Retold

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an event in history. Hear how Alexander the Great tamed Bucephalus, the kindness...

Laura Caldwell 3 hours 21 minutes

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Children's Fiction

E. Nesbit - Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

<p/>Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children...

Laura Caldwell and 9 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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G. K. Chesterton - Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline)

Stuart Bell and 8 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucretia P. Hale - Peterkin Papers (version 2)

The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are a lovable but comically inept family with ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness,...

Laura Caldwell and 8 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

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Charles Kingsley - Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and...

Laura Caldwell and 6 more 5 hours 24 minutes

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Charlotte Mary Yonge - Little Duke

The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is historical fiction based on the the life of Richard, Duke of Normandy. He assumes the title of Duke at only 8 years of age, after his father is murdered. The story first...

Cori Samuel and 6 more 3 hours 56 minutes

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Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony

Children's Fiction

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James Otis - Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony

Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the purpose to show them the daily home life of the Virginia colonists. It is written from the viewpoint of a young boy named Richard Mutton. (summary...

Laura Caldwell 3 hours 8 minutes

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Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey

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Alfred Marshall - Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey

Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it. His...

Carl Manchester and 5 more 2 hours 7 minutes Principles of Economics

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World English Bible - Bible (WEB) NT 01-27: The New Testament

The World English Bible is a translation of the Bible into modern English. Work on the project began in 1997, but the translation has been released directly into the public domain, free of copyright. It is largely an...

David Lawrence and 17 more 19 hours 21 minutes Bible (World English Bible)

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Children's Non-fiction

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John Burroughs - Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers

Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight into the daily life of small woodland creatures. Included in these essays are...

Laura Caldwell 3 hours 13 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Kate Douglas Wiggin - Birds' Christmas Carol

Carol Bird was born on Christmas Day. She has spent all of her 11 years putting others above herself, always finding ways to make their lives a little more special. Even when faced with her own illness, the pure...

Missie and 3 more 1 hour 12 minutes

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Poetry

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Edwin Arlington Robinson - House on the Hill

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of The House on the Hill by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 30th, 2007.

Alan Clare and 14 more 19 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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