Patti Cunningham

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

528

William Clark Russell - Frozen Pirate

Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years (Summary by P. Cunningham)

Patti Cunningham and 5 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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General Fiction

486

Elizabeth Bonhôte - Bungay Castle: A Novel

Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family at Bungay Castle in Suffolk. Two young members of the family, Roseline and Edwin,...

Patti Cunningham 9 hours 8 minutes

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Children's Fiction

512

Louisa May Alcott - Aunt Jo's Scrapbag

A collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott that were written with the intent to entertain the whole family and to fill children's heads with wonder and delight. (Summary by Jennifer Stearns)

Diana Majlinger and 10 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

562

Jules Verne - Topsy-Turvy

Topsy Turvy is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889). This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890). We meet our old friends Barbicane and J.T. Maston from “Earth to the Moon”...

Anna Simon and 12 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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General

622

M. B. Synge - On the Shores of the Great Sea

Book I of the «Story of the World» series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. Brief histories of the Ancient Israelites, Phoenicians,...

Jonathan R. Jackson and 17 more 4 hours 52 minutes

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Poetry

563

Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali

Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated into other languages. In England a...

Neeru Iyer and 6 more 1 hour 40 minutes

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Animals

556

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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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 1

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 1

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Julie VW and 24 more 21 hours 34 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Poetry

485

Royal Baking Powder Company - Billy in Bunbury

This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Little Billy, who won't eat, is taken to the delicious kingdom Bunbury by...

Patti Cunningham 20 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

580

Children's Short Works, Vol. 003

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 003: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Denny Sayers and 6 more 2 hours 3 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Humorous Fiction

488

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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General Fiction

573

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...

TriciaG and 10 more 6 hours 9 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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