Phil Chenevert

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Abbie Farwell Brown - Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts

Poems and Christian stories of the animal encounters of various saints. — Summary by Wikipedia

Phil Chenevert and 9 more 4 hours 9 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

759

Ruth Plumly Thompson - Cowardly Lion of Oz

The Cowardly Lion, always fearful, has become even more afraid than usual and is convinced that he has lost the courage the Wizard of OZ gave him man years ago. To remedy this he decides to follow the dubious advice...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 35 minutes Oz books

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

491

Saint Augustine of Hippo - On Christian Doctrine

De doctrina Christiana, On Christian Doctrine, is a famous treatise by Augustine of Hippo, consisting of four books that describe how to interpret and teach the Scriptures. The first three books, published in 397, set...

Phil Chenevert and 8 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Harry Harrison - Deathworld (version 2)

A world that actively seeks to kill the colonists. Not a pleasant place. The hordes of ferocious animals all come with deadly poison and a will to kill as many humans as possible. Even the plants have teeth and claws...

Phil Chenevert 6 hours 34 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

551

G. K. Chesterton - St. Francis of Assisi

For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 50 minutes

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5)

Action & Adventure Fiction

495

Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5)

This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but we also frequently fail to follow these better instincts and follow instead...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 53 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

565

G. K. Chesterton - Thou Shalt Not Kill

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Thou Shalt Not Kill by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 25, 2018. — This Weekly Poem is taken from The Wild Knight and Other Poems...

Bruce Kachuk and 18 more 28 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Philip Francis Nowlan - Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 3)

This is the original ‘Buck Rogers’ SF classic. Thrill to the adventures of Anthony «Buck» Rogers, one of the most celebrated characters in the history of science fiction. Famed in comic strips, television, in movies,...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 57 minutes

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Satire

547

George Bernard Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession

.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two performances because of the profession talked about. The play is about a...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 50 minutes

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Poetry

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Ameen Rihani - Chant of Mystics, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by the influential Lebanese American author Ameen Rihani. In these poems, the author playfully introduces the American public of the early 1920's to the environment in which he grew up,...

Malachy Orozco and 6 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Oscar Wilde - Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2)

To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 32 minutes

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Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books

Animals & Nature

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Rudyard Kipling - Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books

In the Jungle Books, Kipling tells 9 wonderful and exciting tales about Mowgli, the human baby raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of India. His exploits and adventures are many and varied especially his dealing...

Phil Chenevert 7 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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