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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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Children's Fiction

509

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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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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Poetry

555

Charles Webbe - Against Indifference

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Against Indifference by Charles Webbe. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 20th, 2008.

Alan Davis Drake and 16 more 15 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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*Non-fiction

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United States Government - Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

Andrea Fiore and 22 more 1 hour 31 minutes

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Historical Fiction

501

Daisy Ashford - Young Visiters

The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena introduces his young lady friend Ethel to a genuine gentleman named Bernard...

Tysto 1 hour 38 minutes

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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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Poetry

540

Short Poetry Collection 053

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 053: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Clarica and 9 more 38 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

592

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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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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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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