Mary Escano

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Jean de La Fontaine - Fables of La Fontaine

Jean de la Fontaine's fables were very well-known all over Europe during his life, and are now slowly being rediscovered. This edition contains 240 fables or fairy tales and a biography of Jean de la Fontaine and...

RogerMathewson and 19 more 11 hours 57 minutes

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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai» is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Nick J. Gold and 18 more 9 hours 50 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 056

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Tony Addison and 9 more 7 hours 34 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Emma Frances Dawson - Itinerant House, and Other Stories

This is a volume of short stories of supernatural fiction by American author Emma Frances Dawson. Not all of the tales depend on ghosts, most of them are much more subtle than that. The author skillfully creates...

Dan Gurzynski and 4 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Humor

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Kate Sanborn - Wit of Women

It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting. While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now threadbare, the wit of women has been almost utterly ignored and...

Joseph Tabler and 9 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Helen Randolph - Secret of Casa Grande

While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann and Peggy noticed a barred window which has no opening into any of the rooms of an ancient adobe house. Curious to find out what it is, the girls...

Mary Escano 4 hours 30 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Edmund Gill Swain - Stoneground Ghost Tales

The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country. The protagonist, the Rector of Stoneground, the Reverend Roland Batchel, is...

Dan Gurzynski and 6 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Barry Pain - Problem Club

The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathematics, but are social problems, in the broadest possible sense of the word....

Foon and 9 more 3 hours 20 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 023

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 023: a collection of 16 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members. — Summary by Ruth Golding

Carolyn Agee and 12 more 3 hours 4 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Missing Formula

Orphan Anne Fairaday faces a life of poverty upon the death of her father. The only thing that can prevent it is finding his latest experiment. She enlisted her new found friend, Madge Sterling, an outdoors girl who...

Mary Escano 2 hours 43 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Clara Doty Bates - On The Tree Top

A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. — Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman.

BettyB and 6 more 2 hours 19 minutes

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Poetry

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Lewis Carroll - Rhyme? And Reason?

«I have had nor rhyme nor reason» is inscribed on the cover page of this book. These poems are then also some of the most phantastic poems published by Lewis Carroll, including such famous verses as Phantasmagoria and...

Anusha Iyer and 12 more 2 hours 14 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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