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Action & Adventure

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George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind

Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for...

Meredith Hughes and 16 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

584

Joseph Baudis - Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales

Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roots) of well known fairy tales such as “The Brave Little Taylor” and “Beauty...

Maria Celano and 8 more 3 hours 40 minutes

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581

Mary Harris Jones - Autobiography of Mother Jones

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the...

Scott Henkel and 8 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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496

W. E. Hutchinson - Byways Around San Francisco Bay

California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-giving air, invites the lover of nature to take long tramps over hill and...

Michelle Crandall and 6 more 2 hours 5 minutes

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Poetry

669

Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people...

Lokon and 43 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 005

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 005: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Ben Douglas and 15 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Children's Fiction

584

L. Frank Baum - Little Wizard Stories of Oz

The «Little Wizard Stories of Oz» are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish the Oz series with «The Emerald City of Oz,» published in 1910. Following that, he...

Maddie 1 hour 12 minutes

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Poetry

568

William Carlos Williams - Danse Russe

Williams spent his life as a doctor practicing pediatric medicine in northern New Jersey, a few miles west of New York City. During the work day, between seeing patients, he often dashed off poems on the backs of...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 15 more 17 minutes

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

This chapter of Macaulay’s, History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to suppress these. Argyle has been sheltering in Holland and returns to raise an...

Jim Mowatt and 12 more 4 hours 42 minutes

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Romance

716

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island

This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where she is studying for her BA. She has many trials and tribulations along the...

JemmaBlythe and 13 more 7 hours 51 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

765

Jean Webster - Dear Enemy

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs . The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's college mate in Daddy-Long-Legs . Among the recipients of...

Kymm Zuckert and 8 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacked...

Hugh McGuire and 8 more 8 hours 2 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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