Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)

195 books

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Animals & Nature

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Peter Mink

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: «Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and...

Lucy Burgoyne 1 hour 53 minutes

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General Fiction

509

Voltaire - Zadig or the Book of Fate

Zadig, ou La Destinée, («Zadig, or The Book of Fate») (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does...

Carl Manchester and 9 more 3 hours 47 minutes

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Poetry

526

Henry van Dyke - Name of France

In celebration of Bastille Day, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Name of France by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for the week of July 8th, 2007.

David Barnes and 10 more 19 minutes

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General

537

Johnny Gruelle - Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2)

This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a rag doll, on which he had drawn an eternally smiling face. Marcella and Raggedy Ann became inseparable, and inspired Gruelle to write...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz and 5 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks

Family

593

Oliver Optic - Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks

Flora Lee's birthday came in July. Her mother wished very much to celebrate the occasion in a proper manner. Flora was a good girl, and her parents were always glad to do any thing they could to please her, and to...

Lucy Burgoyne 39 minutes

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*Non-fiction

583

Charles Darwin - Voyage of the Beagle

The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen...

Roger Turnau and 20 more 21 hours 50 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

533

Lewis Carroll - Alice Pleasance Liddell

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 different recordings of Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 17th, 2007.

Clarica and 22 more 29 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

522

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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Epistolary Fiction

655

Samuel Richardson - Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

«Now first published in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has its Foundation in Truth and Nature; and at the same time that it...

Ann Boyer and 10 more 22 hours 10 minutes

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Travel & Geography

483

Walt Whitman - Specimen Days

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.

Sue Anderson and 12 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Short works

560

Bed Time Stories for Aidan Christopher

Bed time Stories for Aidan Christopher is a collection of: Favorite stories submitted and read by the Volunteers at Librivox.org. This project has been undertaken to celebrate the October 2007 arrival into the world...

Robert Scott and 8 more 1 hour 13 minutes

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Poetry

560

Alfred Noyes - Nippon

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven recordings of Nippon by Alfred Noyes. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 9th, 2007.

Kristin Hughes and 10 more 13 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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