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The Valley of the Squinting Windows
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Brinsley Macnamara
The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a sma…
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
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Oscar Micheaux
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
The Wishing Bridge
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John Greenleaf Whittier
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wishing Bridge by John Greenleaf Whittier.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Jul…
The Literature of Arabia
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Epiphanius Wilson
A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. It will remind the reader of the "Morte d'Arthur" of Sir Thomas Malor…
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
Stanton White: A Romance of the New South
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Asa Zadel Hall
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …
The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
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Émile Zola
Book Two of Zola's 20-volume Rougon-Macquart Cycle. "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curee") concerns Aristide Siccard (on…
Porgy
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DuBose Heyward and Dubose Heyward
Story about Southern African American man with disabilities and the life he leads in the 1900's. - Summary by Denise Ray
Sowing Seeds in Danny
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Nellie Mcclung
Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) is a Canadian icon - a feminist, social activist, author, and political leader. When she was a child, she move…
The Soldiers' Recessional
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John Huston Finley
Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of forty copies for private distribution, by the courtesy of Charles Scribn…
Little Peachling and Other Tales of Old Japan
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Georgene Faulkner
Eleven fun tales from Japan for young and old folks. - Summary by kirk202
Longshanks
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Stephen W. Meader
In 1828, young Tad Hopkins takes an adventure-filled trip down the Mississippi River to meet his father in New Orleans. Along the way he bef…
Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas
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William James Mcglothlin
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous.This was the Fortnightly Poetry proje…
The Man of Feeling
Read by Jim Locke
Henry Mackenzie
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…
A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari, and Other Tales of South-West Africa
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Frederick Cornell
A collection of stories set in South-West Africa, several of which are set in the desert. (Summary by ShrimpPhish)
The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Maquart Cycle
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Émile Zola
The placid Provencal lives of Francois Mouret and his wife Marthe are irreparably impacted by the arrival of a suspicious cleric, Abbe Fauja…
Max Havelaar; or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
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Multatuli
Called "the Book that Killed Colonialism", Max Havelaar is an indictment of the Dutch colonial policies of the 1850s that were des…
Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
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Dhan Gopal Mukerji
First published in 1927, Mukerji's charming historical fiction novel was designated a Newbery Honor book in 1928. It follows the north-India…
The Wonder-Smith and His Son: A Tale from the Golden Childhood of the World
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Ella Young
This 1928 Newbery Honor book is a collection of fourteen Irish folktales about the Gubbaun Saor, a mythologized historical architect and smi…
The Story of Gisli the Outlaw
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Unknowntranslated Bysir George Webbe Dasent
The Story of Gisli the Outlaw is a translation of the medieval Icelandic Gísla saga súrssonar, the tale of a family feud and o…