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Catherine Carswell - Open The Door

This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her complexities and contradictions, some of which are faced by women almost 100...

Mark Nelson and 10 more 16 hours 19 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales

Action & Adventure

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales

This collection of The Junior Classics is compiled from many wonderful authors including Alcott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Carroll. The stories are suitable for all ages and as with the rest of the series include the...

Ariphron and 16 more 14 hours 32 minutes The Junior Classics

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Junior Classics Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from...

Foon and 11 more 14 hours 7 minutes The Junior Classics

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 032

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

Nan Dodge and 11 more 9 hours 47 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Historical Fiction

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Violet Jacob - Flemington

This adventure historical fiction novel is set in Angus, Scotland during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It has all the elements of a good war novel: spies, betrayals, politics, and even a love story (but not quite...

Nan Dodge 8 hours 58 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 075

A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Carolyn Wells, Egerton Castle, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Stephen Leacock and others to bring...

Lynne T and 9 more 7 hours 44 minutes Short Story Collections

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Children's Fiction

Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3)

An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism,...

JayKitty76 and 18 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Animals & Nature

Ada M. Skinner - Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving

From the Introduction: «Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader’s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest or reveal certain facts which stimulate a spirit of investigation and attract the...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

Essays & Short Works

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Christopher Morley - Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Clifton Johnson - Fir-Tree Fairy Book

In this volume, Clifton Johnson has compiled his favourite fairy tales. We hear a lot of animals, because fairy tales with animals in them are Mr. Johnson's favourite stories, but we also hear of fairies, of wizards,...

Greg Giordano and 20 more 6 hours 44 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Elizabeth W. Grierson - Scottish Fairy Book

This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious region under the sea, «far below the abode of fishes,» where the Mermaids and...

Nan Dodge 6 hours 34 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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May Folwell Hoisington - Woodcraft Boys at Sunset Island

An adventure story for boys, it was included in the Every Boys' Library, a collection of works deemed the most popular among boys. Set on an island off the coast of Maine, Woodcraft Boys at Sunset Island is an account...

Marty and 7 more 5 hours 44 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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