Richard Kilmer

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

416

John C. Hutcheson - Ghost Ship

This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work out their position, and yet again encounter the same vessel going in an...

Richard Kilmer and 4 more 8 hours 30 minutes

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Single Author Collections

449

Heywood Broun - Seeing Things at Night

This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)

Barry Eads and 6 more 6 hours 55 minutes

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Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

General Fiction

433

Jacob A. Riis - Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital...

Diana Majlinger and 7 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Theodore Dreiser - Financier

In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and...

Richard Kilmer 21 hours 49 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

505

Heywood Broun - Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, such as how to court women successfully, what it feels like to be a god, and why...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 6 hours 5 minutes

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Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

Action & Adventure Fiction

938

Thomas Mayne Reid - Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah!...

Barry Eads and 14 more 22 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

458

Andy Adams - Outlet

Andy Adams worked as a cowboy on trail drives from Texas for eight years. This is an account of a drive when he was the foreman of a herd of Texas cattle being driven to Montana. Expect the same quality writing as...

Richard Kilmer 10 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

427

Max Brand - Alcatraz

This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)

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*Non-fiction

480

Clarence Darrow - Industrial Conspiracies

Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the McNamaras at Los Angeles, California. The man, the subject and the occasion...

Richard Kilmer 1 hour 5 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

481

Sapper - Bulldog Drummond

‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. And Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond was his most popular leading character. This book,...

Andy Minter and 6 more 8 hours 56 minutes

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Poetry

539

Short Poetry Collection 095

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of February and March 2011.

Penelope Greenwell and 20 more 1 hour 47 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Children's Non-fiction

470

J. Walker McSpadden - Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers

These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the soldier —to trace his career up from boyhood through the formative years. Such...

Maria Therese and 7 more 6 hours 6 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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