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James Frazer - Golden Bough

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach,...

hefyd and 10 more 42 hours 44 minutes

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Frank Lewis Dyer - Edison, His Life and Inventions

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, «It is designed in...

Justin S Barrett and 21 more 29 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote - Vol. 2

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he...

Denny Sayers and 23 more 21 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Nora Archibald Smith - Fairy Ring

The Fairy Ring , originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites as «History of Jack the Giant-Killer», «The Frog...

Laurie Anne Walden and 28 more 17 hours 36 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sir Thomas Malory - Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1

Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, «the death of Arthur») is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of some French and...

Lizzie Driver and 23 more 15 hours 50 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls

Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an «epic poem in...

David Barnes and 14 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Joseph Lewis French - Great Pirate Stories

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a...

James Christopher and 11 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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G. K. Chesterton - Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline)

Stuart Bell and 8 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

Children's Fiction

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Charles Kingsley - Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and...

Laura Caldwell and 6 more 5 hours 24 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Short Mystery Story Collection 002

LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Ralph Snelson and 6 more 4 hours 14 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 002

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology....

Bruce Bell-Myers and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute Short Science Fiction Collections

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Horror Story Collection 004

An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking...

Pete Williams Pittsburgh PA and 8 more 2 hours 24 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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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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