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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colo…

American Indian Fairy Tales

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William Trowbridge Larned

With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…

Sarrasine

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Honoré de Balzac

Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s s…

War Is Kind (Collection)

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Stephen Crane

Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in…

Chapter 09

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

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C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

The Clerk's Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Introduction by GK Chesterton

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 01 (Fables 1-25)

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Aesop

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

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In The Owl and the Pussycat

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Edward Lear

LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first…

Father and Son

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …