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The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059
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Various
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ra…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…
Douglas Duane
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Edgar Fawcett
An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love wit…
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
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Charles Babbage
Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal …
Private Property
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Seth Kenlon
Fear and Loathing in Post Apocalyptic America.
The future, after the genetic experiments of the great Doctor Patricia R. Durham, leaves all …
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
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Vachel Lindsay
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from t…
Maarten Chuzzlewit
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Charles Dickens
De familie Chuzzlewit is op jacht naar de erfenis van de oude Maarten Chuzzlewit. De kleinzoon, Martin Chuzzlewit, heeft daarnaast ook zijn …
Phineas Redux (Version 2)
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Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to London from Scotland and reenters the political scene. After some hurdl…
How Betsey and I Made Up
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Will Carleton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How Betsey and I Made Up by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 3r…
Canada and Other Poems
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Thomas Frederick Young
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
Canadian Scenery, Volume 1
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
An historical account of the settlement of Upper and Lower Canada, with notes about the indigenous inhabitants of those areas of Eastern Can…
Life and Writings of Addison
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, wi…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
The Cabinet Minister
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…
The American Beaver and His Works
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Lewis Henry Morgan
A comprehensive study of the behavior of the American beaver, based on the author's first-hand observations. - Summary by Joanne Turner
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1
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William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Ovid And His Influence
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Edward Kennard Rand
In this early entry into the Our Debt To Greece and Rome series, Rand provides a lively summary and commentary on all of Ovid's poetical wor…
Modern Monologues
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Marjorie Benton Cooke
The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…
