Phil Chenevert

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

755

Edgar Allan Poe - Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe has the ability to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little was 'done' in the sense of horrible actions described. My imagination, under...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 59 minutes

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Science Fiction

957

Philip K. Dick - Second Variety (Version 2)

First published in Space Science Fiction May 1953. «The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 55 minutes

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Poetry

785

Edgar Allan Poe - Raven and Other Poems

«Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping —...

Phil Chenevert 35 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Frederik Pohl - Tunnel Under The World

This famous Pohl story explores cybernetic robots and implanted personalities in a way that certainly expanded my way of looking at reality. Is that wall really real? or is it just kinda, sorta real? And who am I? The...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 24 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 116

This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2013.

Christopher M. Wallace and 15 more 56 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Middle Ages/Middle History

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James Joseph Walsh - Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries

It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so preposterous that they may not even care to consider it. A certain number, of...

Phil Chenevert 19 hours 33 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - Dot and Tot of Merryland

Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached...

Zaradaqaw and 12 more 3 hours 26 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Red Dust

You who have read «The Mad Planet» by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered,...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 45 minutes

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Children's Fiction

785

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (version 5)

The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. Each story is...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 30 minutes

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War & Military

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Sun Tzu 孙武 - Art of War (version 3)

First compiled in the 6th century BC, The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy and is frequently cited and referred to by...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 19 minutes

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Poetry

778

Joyce Kilmer - Trees and Other Poems

«I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is presd against the sweet earth's flowing breast ...». Almost all of us, including myself of course, have heard and...

Phil Chenevert 49 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Tanks

Tanks and the future of war is what Murray Leinster speculates about in this story. Written in the 1920's he observed the terrible new inventions that were used in World War I to kill people, armored tanks and...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 11 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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