Mark F. Smith

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Children's Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Rewards and Fairies

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children’s books, including The Jungle Book , Just So Stories , and Puck of...

Kara Shallenberg and 10 more 7 hours 50 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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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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Fantastic Fiction

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Arthurian Miscellany

A collection of works that explore the rich and evocative legend of King Arthur. The exploits of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been a staple of British literature through the centuries, drawing...

Alan Davis Drake and 6 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Francis P. Church - Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

«Is There A Santa Claus?» was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun . The editorial, which included the response of «Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa...

Alex Rudinski and 7 more 32 minutes

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Epics

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Homer - Iliad

The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest...

Joshua B. Christensen and 16 more 14 hours 29 minutes

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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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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Gaston Leroux - Phantom of the Opera

An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doesn't get his own way. Secrets, intrigues, falling chandeliers! The Phantom...

Cori Samuel and 14 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adventures on the way. (Alex Foster)

Alex Foster and 12 more 6 hours 33 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later...

James Smith and 18 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Poetry

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - When We Two Parted

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of When We Two Parted , by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 26th, 2006.

Clayton J. Smith and 8 more 12 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 15th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 16 more 20 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Stephen Crane - War Is Kind

This weekly poem commemorated the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane. The title takes on a gentle yet harrowing irony as this poem powerfully evokes the...

Alan Davis Drake and 9 more 18 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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