General Fiction
Heroines Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
The companion volume to Heroes Every Child Should Know, this volume looks at 13 famous and heroic women from history. - Summary by Lynne Tho…
Literary Lapses
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Stephen Leacock
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…
Brazilian Tales
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Varioustranslated Byisaac Goldberg and Varioustranslated By Isaac Goldberg
"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literatu…
An American Robinson Crusoe
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Samuel B. Allison
An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his paren…
The Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
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William Patten, Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten
The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remem…
The Legacy of Cain
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Wilkie Collins
Eunice and Helena are sisters brought up by their father, the Reverend Abel Gracedieu. They grow up quietly and happily, until some dark sec…
The Morgesons
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Elizabeth Stoddard
Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeso…
The Altar of the Dead
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Henry James
A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, …
Echoes of Love’s House
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William Morris
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Echoes of Love’s House by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 9th,…
Bertram Cope's Year
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Henry Blake Fuller
This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this stor…
Gone to Earth
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Mary Webb
"Gone to Earth" is the cry of fox hunters as the fox takes to its den and they lose the chase. Here, Mary Webb tells the story of …
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02
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Variousandmarshall Pinckney Wilder, H. G. Wells and Various And Marshall Pinckney Wilder
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 author…
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University
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Owen Wister
Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)
A Christmas Miscellany 2018
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Various
Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)
The Story of H.M.S. Pinafore
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W. S. Gilbert
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbe…
Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories
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Various
The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader’s grandchildren in mind. “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphant Annie,…
The Death of the Lion
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Henry James
This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journ…
J. Poindexter, Colored
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Irvin S. Cobb
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…
What Diantha Did
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate …
The House with the Green Shutters
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George Douglas Brown
The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in m…