Nature Fiction
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 15
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This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Twilight Voices
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William Allingham
William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor, who wrote several volumes of lyric verse. (Summary by David Lawrence)
Smoky The Cowhorse
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Will James
This is a novel by Will James, an artist and writer of the American West in the early 1900’s. The story tells of the life of Smoky, a horse …
The Nomad of the Nine Lives
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Abby Frances Friebe
Tales of a cat's life told by the cat in hopes of saving cats from death by animal shelters or abandonment. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)
Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts
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David Alec Wilson
Although David Alec Wilson is best known for his writings about Thomas Carlyle, he was a Scottish civil servant who spent much time in India…
Earth's Enigmas
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many…
Fire - Flowers
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18,…
Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium
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Walter Alden Dyer
This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod h…
The Race Of The Swift
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Edwin Carlile Litsey
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
Winter Evening
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Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent …
Da draußen vor dem Tore
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Hermann Löns
In kurzen Geschichten malt Hermann Löns erzählerisch heimatliche Naturbilder der Flora und Fauna. Als Grundlage dienen Beobachtung…
Off the Rocks: Stories of the Deep-Sea Fisherfolk of Labrador
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Sir Wilfred Grenfell
William Grenfell was sent to Newfoundland by the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, an organization which provided medical and sp…
Treve
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Albert Payson Terhune
Treve is a gloriously beautiful and madly alive collie that finds himself, through a series of lucky and unlucky events, on a sheep ranch in…
Das Leben der Bienen
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Schilderung der auf eigene Beobachtungen und Studien beruhenden faszinierenden Vorgänge in einem Bienenstock. Der Naturforscher und Beo…
Wongo And The Wise Old Crow
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Grace Moon
Stories of an Indian boy and his friends told by a children’s author of yesteryear, published 1923. - Summary by david wales
The Shagganappi
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E. Pauline Johnson
Tales of adventure in the context of white and first nations peoples interacting in North America, told by Tekahionwake, Haudenosaunee of Si…
The Old Year
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John Clare
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English country…
The Hunter and His Dying Steed
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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was "one of the first English-Canadian writ…
Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria
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Elphinstone Dayrell
Elphinstone Daryell [1869-1917] was a British colonial administrator in southern Nigeria who had an interest in anthropology and folklore. T…
I Remember, I Remember
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Thomas Hood
"There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill …