Nathalie J.

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Historical Fiction

Georg Ebers - Arachne

Ledscha, living in ancient Egypt, has lost her betrothed and all hope of love. But the gods see otherwise. She now loves a Greek sculptor, who only wanted her for a model, but even that will not happen. She has...

Nathalie J. and 10 more 13 hours 18 minutes

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Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

A kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create a horrifying conundrum. Who was the...

Nathalie J. 6 hours 59 minutes

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General Fiction

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T. S. Arthur - Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by Kehinde)

Nathalie J. 7 hours 15 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - White Linen Nurse

The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring for the invalid daughter of the Senior Surgeon. The unexpected events which...

Nathalie J. 5 hours 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Harry Hazelton - Lost City

Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in one of the professor's machines to investigate a tornado at close range and...

Nathalie J. 6 hours 39 minutes

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General Fiction

E. M. Forster - Longest Journey

Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman,...

Julie Pandya and 1 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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Poetry

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Christmas Short Works Collection 2007

LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Colletion containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members. Section 09: A Cornish Christmas Play, a...

Ralph Snelson and 13 more 5 hours 20 minutes

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Historical Fiction

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 04: 1806

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Roger Melin and 3 more 3 hours 2 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Travel & Geography

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Mary H. Kingsley - Travels in West Africa

Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. Kingsley was an outspoken critic of European colonialism,...

Nathalie J. 20 hours 8 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

<p/>Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children...

Laura Caldwell and 9 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Andy Adams - Cattle Brands

Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the harrowing skirmishes with banditos, thrilling shoot-outs, attempt at and the...

Nathalie J. 6 hours 43 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Frances Calderón de la Barca - Life In Mexico

FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, where she married the Spanish diplomat, Don Angel Calderon de la Barca. She...

Nathalie J. 23 hours 45 minutes

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New

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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