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Victor Hugo - Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published under the title «By Order of the King». (Introduction by Wikipedia)

wvthcomp and 27 more 24 hours 53 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Charlotte M. Brame - Fair Mystery

(Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.) Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home to his wife, Patty, and small daughter, Mattie, when out of a dark and...

Lynne T and 8 more 19 hours 11 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Emmeline Pankhurst - My Own Story

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. She was widely criticized for her militant tactics, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving...

Petra and 1 more 8 hours 8 minutes

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Literary Criticism

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Walter Pater - Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well received by public and critic since its first edition, in 1889. The volume...

Kasper and 7 more 8 hours 3 minutes

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Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 4

Poetry

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Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 4

2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works — fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued by Dickens'...

K.G.Cross and 14 more 7 hours 25 minutes Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection - 5 Volumes

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Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5

Poetry

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Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5

2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works — fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued by...

K.G.Cross and 11 more 6 hours 56 minutes Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection - 5 Volumes

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Single Author Collections

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E. Nesbit - Literary Sense

A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Many of her books have been made into television series...

Jean Bascom and 5 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs - Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle. There is an earlier version of this book — Celtic Fairy Tales , but this recording was done from a different book in Project Gutenberg. Same book, new...

K.G.Cross and 14 more 5 hours 58 minutes

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Short Stories

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Rabindranath Tagore - Hungry Stones And Other Stories

This is a collection of short stories written by the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The stories contained in this volume were translated by several hands. The version of The Victory is the author's own work. The...

KirksVoice and 7 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Historic Girls

Twelve short stories of real girls who have influenced the history of their times. (Summary by Carmen H)

Carmen H and 7 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Eugene Field - Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have...

David Wales and 7 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)

Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources,...

Clarica and 17 more 3 hours 28 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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