Lucy Perry

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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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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Short works

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Ontario Readers: Third Book

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary works, both stories and poems, geared to grade-school age children. (Summary by...

David Lawrence and 20 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Short Stories

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Saki - Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki (December 18, 1870 – November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro. Saki's world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless but...

Justin Brett and 6 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Israel Zangwill - Grotesques and Fantasies

A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the Jewish ghetto, these stories have a wider stage, poking fun at social conventions and...

Mike Pelton and 9 more 6 hours 39 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Anonymous - Sketches Of The Fair Sex

Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress....

Colman Shew and 14 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Poetry

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV) 19: Psalms

The Book of Psalms, commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Taken together, its 150 poems «express virtually the full range of Israel's religious faith.» They each...

GabrielleC and 6 more 5 hours 17 minutes Bible (King James Version)

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 032

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the history of aeroplanes, political speeches, travel, philosophy, Japan, the United Nations, Congressional...

Craig Campbell and 10 more 4 hours 51 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

These are 25 fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen — A collection of something for everyone — the very popular stories, the less well-known stories and favorites, that both children and grownups can enjoy....

Lucy Perry and 15 more 4 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Glinda of Oz

Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book and is the last one written by the original author L. Frank Baum, although the series was continued after his death by several other authors. Dorothy and Ozma...

Luke Nelson and 9 more 4 hours 38 minutes Oz books

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 020

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 020: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Frances Brown and 11 more 3 hours 33 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Satire

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Inspector-General

The Governor and Officials of a small provincial town in Russia are worried. They have received word that a Government Inspector is on his way. As they do what they can to cover up their own corruption and...

Lucy Perry 3 hours 30 minutes

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Poetry

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Voltairine de Cleyre - Selected Works: Poems

Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912)was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected poems....

Hannah Dowell and 9 more 3 hours 5 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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