Timothy Ferguson

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, cooking, humor, medicine,...

Betsie Bush and 9 more 4 hours 27 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Literary Criticism

446

Robert Lynd - Old and New Masters

Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw… these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: some well known, and some a bit more obscure to the average reader today....

chocmuse and 14 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Children's Fiction

484

Jennie Hall - Viking Tales

Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. (Summary by Nadine)

Timothy Ferguson and 10 more 3 hours 29 minutes

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Political Science

579

Carl von Clausewitz - On War (Volume 1)

A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing statements and then draws them together to describe many facets of war....

Timothy Ferguson 10 hours 52 minutes

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Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

Poetry

538

Elias Lönnrot - Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seabird and continuing to the birth of the Kaleva District, the lands of...

Kyle Raub and 14 more 15 hours 27 minutes

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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1.

*Non-fiction

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Aesop - Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1.

A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the Librivox community! The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent...

Julie VW and 34 more 36 minutes

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Animals

537

Pliny the Elder - Natural History Volume 1

Naturalis Historia (Latin for «Natural History») is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and...

ontheroad and 11 more 7 hours 44 minutes The Natural History by Pliny

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*Non-fiction

436

Lacy Collison-Morley - Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman authors. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 1 hour 55 minutes

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Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie - Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One

Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 1 hour 55 minutes

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Short non-fiction

502

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011

A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, articles, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass a...

Bellona Times and 11 more 5 hours 48 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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General Fiction

478

Arnold Bennett - Literary Taste: How to Form It

Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 describe his method for learning to enjoy literature. Chapters 11, 12, and 13...

Timothy Ferguson 3 hours

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Single author

463

Andrew Barton Paterson - Man from Snowy River and Other Verses

A collection of poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, picturesque glimpses into life in the Bush. From the preface: «A number of these verses are now published for the first time, most of the others...

Christoph Donges and 11 more 2 hours 35 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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