Phil Chenevert

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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Biography & Autobiography

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Frances Alice Forbes - Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491– 1556) was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was its first Superior General....

Phil Chenevert and 4 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Jack Williamson - Salvage in Space

This is an SF tale of excitement, danger, derring-do and strangely enough, love. A lonely and very poor asteroid miner, slowly collecting bits of metallic ore in the asteroid belt on his slowly accumulating 'planet'...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 4 minutes

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Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Andrew Lang - Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens, and a few words are necessary to explain why the...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Katharine Pyle - Mother’s Nursery Tales

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like the things you see around you or learn from history books. Facts and truths...

Phil Chenevert and 16 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Call of the Wild (version 4)

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 50 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Cheer

This is another volume in Ella Wheeler Wilcox's series. This time, the topic is «Cheer». — Summary by Carolin

Greg Giordano and 10 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

Business & Economics

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Arnold Bennett - How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away? These questions Bennett asks each...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 36 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Walt Whitman - Hush'd Be the Camps Today

LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865. This was the weekly poem for April 12, 2015, to...

Ann Boulais and 15 more 17 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6)

Published 1800 -1900

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6)

Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. This masterpiece by Mark Twain is a delightful mixture of exciting...

Phil Chenevert 11 hours 19 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - Tin Woodman of Oz (version 2)

A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter. The Tin Woodman, whose real name is Nick...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 15 minutes Oz books

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Humorous Fiction

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Irvin S. Cobb - Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)

Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and the problems of having a large one; teeth, hair and finally hands and feet....

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 1 minute

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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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