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Children's Fiction

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Animal Story Book

Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous sources. — Summary by Elsie Selwyn

Elsie Selwyn and 26 more 10 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

531

Francis Marion Crawford - Khaled, A Tale of Arabia

Khaled is a powerful jinn, or genius, but he has a good heart. When he sees that Zehowah, the beautiful, virtuous daughter of the king is about to accept a foreign prince as husband, who lied about converting to...

Angelique G. Campbell and 3 more 6 hours 2 minutes

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Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

Single Author Collections

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Sargent Kayme - Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

«No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet...

mlcui 3 hours 40 minutes

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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (version 2)

Erotica

546

John Cleland - Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (version 2)

This book has been notorious since it first appeared and had been banned several times and in several countries. It is a fictional work that details the adventures of an orphaned girl who ends up working in a brothel...

mlcui 9 hours 7 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

470

Yei Theodora Ozaki - Romances of Old Japan

A collection of romances from old Japan rendered into English by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Filled with tales of honor, adventure, tragedy, and romance, this collection will surely give anyone interested in Japanese culture...

mlcui 6 hours 57 minutes

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At the Back of the North Wind (version 2)

Action & Adventure

517

George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind (version 2)

At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book by George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy...

mlcui 8 hours 59 minutes

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Family Life

437

Olive Wadsley - Almond-Blossom

At the beginning of the story, Tony and Fay had lost a child. One day, Tony saves a little girl, Doro, from drowning. He and Fay end up adopting Doro. Soon after this, Fay discovers that she is with-child. She gives...

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General

476

Olive Beaupre Miller - Latch Key of My Bookhouse

This is the final book in a six volume set of the «My Bookhouse» books. This final title in the series leaves off the format of the previous volumes and is geared towards the parent or teacher. The major part of the...

mlcui and 8 more 7 hours 49 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

456

Charles Perrault - Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French

What began as a translation project became a retelling of four classic fairy tales from the Cabinet des Fees, the French collection of over forty volumes. «Certainly the translations, when finished, did not satisfy...

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

441

Will Carleton - One and Two

This was the Fortnightly Poetry for November 10, 2013. Read in English by Alan Weyman; CaprishaPage; Drew Johnson; David Lawrence; Ernst Pattynama; Garrett Fitzgerald; Jason Mills; Jannie Meisberger; Julia...

Alan Weyman and 13 more 31 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

459

Amy Lowell - Taxi

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Taxi by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 13, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)

Algy Pug and 16 more 14 minutes

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Children's Fiction

460

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the...

Jennifer Dorr and 8 more 4 hours 9 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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