Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)

195 books

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno

The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense...

Lucy Perry and 10 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Men

Little Men (published 1871) is considered the second book of the Little Women trilogy written by Louisa May Alcott. (The book Good Wives (1869) was originally the sequel to the novel Little Women (1868), however those...

E. Moulton and 5 more 9 hours 44 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental children's novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885. It was a runaway hit for the magazine and was...

Mary Anderson and 5 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 1

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Clarica and 12 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William H. Barker - West African Folk Tales

A collection of folk tales mostly centred around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as either a spider, a human or a combination of both. Thus many of the stories...

Lizzie Driver and 11 more 2 hours 36 minutes

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Detective Fiction

996

J. S. Fletcher - Paradise Mystery

A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. (Summary by Gesine)

JimmyLogan and 12 more 8 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure

980

J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan

Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess...

Meredith Hughes and 15 more 5 hours 4 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 009

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 009: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Eliot - Middlemarch

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's...

Guntar and 16 more 33 hours 1 minute

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Andrew Lang - Lilac Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of...

ML Cohen and 18 more 9 hours 47 minutes

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 10)

*Non-fiction

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 10)

This chapter begins with the flight of James II and then moves on to the downfall of Judge Jeffreys and the arrival of Dutch troops in London. James flees again and we see the establishment of the Jacobean court in...

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 09)

*Non-fiction

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 09)

This is chapter 9 of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the accession of James II. This chapter covers part of the invasion of England by William, the Dutch Stadtholder, later William III of England.

Jim Mowatt and 8 more 5 hours 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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