Mark F. Smith
The Reluctant Dragon
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Kenneth Grahame
What would you do if you discovered a dragon living in a cave on a hill above your home? Make friends, read poetry together? It turns out th…
Uncle Remus
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Joel Chandler Harris
Many readers will already be familiar with Uncle Remus’ favorite animal characters – Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Fox among them – and some of the…
The Lost Princess of Oz
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L. Frank Baum
Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard…
Give Me Liberty
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Patrick Henry
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…
The Swiss Family Robinson
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Johann David Wyss
The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the r…
The Wind in the Willows (version 2)
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Kenneth Grahame
This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues the…
More Goops and How Not to Be Them
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Frank Gelett Burgess
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…
The Mysterious Island
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Jules Verne
A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Vi…
The First Battle of Bull Run
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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated …
Little Wars
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H. G. Wells
A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books…
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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Arnold Bennett
"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Ben…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)
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Mark Twain
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on th…
The Gettysburg Address (version 3)
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Abraham Lincoln
The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun…
Tarzan of the Apes
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughs’ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands o…
New Discoveries at Jamestown
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John L. Cotter
Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first &q…
Star Born
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Andre Norton
Andre Norton's "Star Born" pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive gover…
Floor Games
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H. G. Wells
H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire oth…
The First Men in the Moon
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H. G. Wells
Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, E…
The Lost World (version 2)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not …
Greylorn
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Keith Laumer
Commander Greylorn has a problem. No, actually he has two of them. It's not enough that the remaining residents of Earth have pinned their l…
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
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Mary Mapes Dodge
Mary Mapes Dodge created an instant bestseller with "Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates." She wanted the book to be partly a book o…
The Master of the World
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Jules Verne
Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volca…
The Lone Star Ranger
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Zane Grey
Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem - called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him an…
Sense and Sensibility (version 2)
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Jane Austen
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…
Diary of a U-boat Commander
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Stephen King-Hall
Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2)
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Jules Verne
Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoeve…
Captains Courageous
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Rudyard Kipling
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Glouce…
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby
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John S. Mosby
This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almos…
The Point of Honor
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Joseph Conrad
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor i…
This Side of Paradise (version 2)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amory Blaine grew up in a wealthy family and was given an Ivy League education. Without a need to learn a profession, he chiefly dabbled in …
The Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Solo)
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J. Arthur Thomson
In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into scientific thinking as it stood in 1922 on the big, the little, and the biological…
Kidnapped
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Robert Louis Stevenson
David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in t…
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
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William Henry Hudson
"Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a we…
Tom Swift and His War Tank
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Victor Appleton
Tom Swift, that prolific youthful inventor, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British…
The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea
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James Fenimore Cooper
Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and …
Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens
This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…
The Poison Belt
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World ( http://librivox.org/the-lost-world-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/ ), Professor …
Over the Top
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Arthur Guy Empey
Arthur Guy Empey was an American who responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by enlisting with the British Army to fight in France. His ex…
The Man in the Iron Mask
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Alexandre Dumas
In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal…
The House of the Seven Gables
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's …
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator wh…
Triplanetary
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
“Doc” E.E. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. Physics, time, and politics …
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2)
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Booth Tarkington
In a world where a gentleman’s life is defined more “by being, rather than by doing,” a family’s reputation can be compromised if it is not …
Nightmare Abbey
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Thomas Love Peacock
Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low …
Sons and Lovers
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D. H. Lawrence
This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the child…
The Young Railroaders
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Francis Lovell Coombs
While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, tra…
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship 'Pirate'
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Thornton Jenkins Hains
This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper ship told by the second mate. He looks up to Trunnell, the first mate, who somehow ma…
The Blockade Runners
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Jules Verne
Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the …
Beasts, Men and Gods
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Ferdinand Ossendowski
“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.”The d…
The Communist Manifesto (version 2)
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Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…
The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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Winston S. Churchill
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backla…
William Tell Told Again
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P. G. Wodehouse
This is the classic story of William Tell - Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter - as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodeho…
The Battle of Life
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Charles Dickens
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this…
The Royal Book of Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank B…
Conquest Over Time
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Michael Shaara
Pat Travis, a spacer renowned for his luck, is suddenly quite out of it. His job is to beat his competitors to sign newly-Contacted human ra…
Robinson Crusoe (version 2)
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Daniel Defoe
Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …
This World Is Taboo
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Murray Leinster
Calhoun is an Interstellar Medical Serviceman, and he's needed on Dara. Trouble is: Dara is forbidden. Taboo. And breaking quarantine will m…
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
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Victor Appleton
The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercep…
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…
The Kama Sutra
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Mallanaga Vatsyayana and Mallanaga Vatsyayanatranslated Byrichard Francis Burton
The Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, has survived at least 1400 years as a dominant text on sexual relations between men and women. Vatsyay…
The White Feather
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P. G. Wodehouse
Sheen, a member of Seymour's House at Wrykyn School, flees from an unexpected assault by town boys. His colleagues wade into the fight with …
White Fang (Version 2)
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Jack London
When White Fang is birthed in a cave to a wolf sire and a wolf/dog halfbreed dam, he is heir to two traditions. At first he is content to ex…
The Call of the Wild (Version 3)
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Jack London
Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must tou…
Nights With Uncle Remus
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Joel Chandler Harris
That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Dad…
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)
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Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Fran…
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
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Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter i…
The Time Machine (Version 2)
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H. G. Wells
Surely the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exq…
The Ebb-Tide
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires …
The Adventures of Pinocchio (version 2)
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Carlo Collodi
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a…
The Calico Cat (version 2)
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Charles Miner Thompson
The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a…
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard
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Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these …
Treasure Island (Version 4)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…
The Burial of the Guns
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Thomas Nelson Page
This is a book of short stories centered around the Civil War and its aftermath. The author was a prominent Virginian in his day, and his wr…
Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter
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Elliott O'Donnell
After having a difficult time establishing a career as a novelist, O’Donnell discovered to his happy surprise that the reading public was ve…
The Black Arrow
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Robert Louis Stevenson
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …
The Three Musketeers, Version 2
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Alexandre Dumas
D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enable him to obtain a position in…
The Prophet
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Kahlil Gibran
The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his wo…
Blake of the "Rattlesnake"
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Frederick Thomas Jane
Fred Jane, who later went on to publish his famous "Jane's Fighting Ships", doubtless was noting the success of other books that f…
When We Were Very Young
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A. A. Milne
A.A. Milne wrote many poems to entertain his young son, Christopher Robin Milne, who appears to have been about three when "When We Wer…
Americans All, Immigrants All
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U. S. Department Of The Interior Office Of Education
The United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education partnered with the Columbia Broadcasting System to present a series of 26 …
The Mark of Zorro
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Johnston Mcculley
In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to the…
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. Th…
Round the Moon (Version 2)
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne’s sequel to his “From the Earth to the Moon” begins with a short chapter to catch you up, if you missed the first book.Then we j…
The Federalist Papers (version 2)
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Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison
“The Federalist Papers” are a collection of 85 linked essays that explain the construction of the U.S. government and why it was built that …
The Red Badge of Courage (Version 3)
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Stephen Crane
A youth, caught up in patriotic fervor and dreams of glory, enlists in the Union Army. In his first battle, though, he runs away. Deeply ash…