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Edgar Fawcett - Douglas Duane

An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love with the book collector’s fiancée, he concocts an evil plot to have her for his...

ashleighjane and 9 more 6 hours 7 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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Family Life

William Ruschenberger - Elements of Mammalogy

The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to mammalogy. The...

laurencetrask and 9 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy, religion, health, humor, history, and literature. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Craig Campbell and 17 more 5 hours 49 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield - Books Fatal to Their Authors

This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a person's conscience was unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Why...

Anna Simon and 6 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3: The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889. The Law of Storms, considered with special reference to the North Atlantic. The...

ashleighjane and 7 more 5 hours 38 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 016

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Carmen H and 9 more 5 hours 35 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 054

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Science and Exploration--a tribute to Egyptologist Amelia Edwards, and discourses on gravitation and relativity...

Phil Schempf and 8 more 5 hours 19 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

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Australian Miscellany

A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry — we only asked that the readings should have some sort of Australian hook. So they can be by an Australian...

Algy Pug and 12 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 3, 1848 to 1853

Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 3, 1848 to 1853

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)

Alex Lau and 13 more 4 hours 24 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Scott-Elliot - Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

This volume contains two publications by W. Scott-Elliot, namely The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). A theosophist and believer of the Occult, W. Scott-Elliot gives us a description of the...

Rapunzelina 4 hours 6 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Sintram and His Companions

Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil....

Anna Simon and 4 more 4 hours 2 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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