Patti Cunningham

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno

The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense...

Lucy Perry and 10 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Olive Beaupre Miller - In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume...

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Humorous Fiction

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Marriage, volume 1

«Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness.» — Alexander and Campaspe. Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen («And a half,...

Patti Cunningham 7 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

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Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

«Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich» is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic «Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.» Like that work, it is a...

Linda Lee Paquet and 4 more 6 hours 46 minutes

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General Fiction

Frances Moore Brooke - History of Lady Julia Mandeville

Lady Julia, the daughter of the earl of Belmont, and Mr. Henry Mandeville are falling in love. Though Henry is like a family friend, this love is not welcomed because the lady Julia is promised to someone else (or so...

Delysid and 6 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Woman in the Alcove

«I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate.» Thus begins...

Wina Hathaway and 6 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Animals

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John Henry Patterson - Man-Eaters of Tsavo

In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions....

James Christopher and 8 more 6 hours 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

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General Fiction

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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the tenth volume, 62 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

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General Fiction

Francis Coventry - History of Pompey the Little

«Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages.» At an early age he was carried away from the boudoir of his Italian mistress by Hillario, an...

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General Fiction

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Eleanor H. Porter - Across The Years

These 18 wonderful short stories by Eleanor H. Porter, the author of Pollyanna, deal with those marvelous and maddeningly frustrating creatures: human beings. As always, Porter describes real people with sensitivity...

kandice stehlik and 8 more 6 hours 8 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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