Mary Herndon Bell

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George Sand - Indiana

This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aristocratic woman living in 19th century France, she chose her first novel to...

Mary Herndon Bell 11 hours

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Rough Justice

Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were there any blood motives? Detective John Thorne would have to discover. Inspired...

Marina and 3 more 10 hours 31 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Grey Fairy Book

The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs....

Maria Therese and 24 more 9 hours 52 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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General Fiction

432

Louis Tracy - Silent Barrier

Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversation between two young women, one of whom is to go to Switzerland. He decides...

Mary Herndon Bell 9 hours 15 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Mrs. Charles Bryce - Ashiel Mystery - A Detective Story

Just as the adopted Juliet Byrne finds out the truth about her family, her father is murdered. Luckily the brilliant chocolate-munching Detective Gimblet takes up the case to solve the 'Ashiel Mystery' (Summary by...

Crln Yldz Ksr and 5 more 8 hours 26 minutes

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Romance

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Charlotte Lennox - Female Quixote Vol. 2

Second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his...

Jesse Noar and 7 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Silent House

A mystery about a «locked door» murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the book,...

Elena and 10 more 8 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

482

Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room

The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do...

Amanda and 5 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Family Life

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Margaret Widdemer - Rose Garden Husband

This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old children's librarian. She is good at her job. Yet when she sees a girl from her...

Mary Herndon Bell 4 hours 26 minutes

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Poetry

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S.A.R. - Let Us Make Each Day Our Birthday

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Let Us Make Each Day Our Birthday by S.A.R., from The California Birthday Book (1909). This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 31st, 2010.

Cate MacDonald and 16 more 23 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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