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In The Wheels of Chance

Read by Tom Watts


H.G.Wells and H. G. Wells


The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a draper's assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on …

When You Are Old - Read by TPW

In When You Are Old

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W. B. Yeats and William Butler Yeats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3rd,…

A Boy's Song - Read By TPW

In A Boy's Song

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James Hogg


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Boy's Song by James Hogg. This was the weekly poetry project for April 26th, 2009.

08 - Ornithology On A Cotton Plantation

In A Florida Sketch-Book

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Bradford Torrey


This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by Bell…

The Australian Sunrise

In The Australian Sunrise

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James Lister Cuthbertson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Australian Sunrise by James Lister Cuthbertson. This was the weekly poetry project for Au…

The Gentle Art of Faking

Read by Jordan Watts


Riccardo Nobili


IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary …

Revelations of a Spirit Medium

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A. Medium


Written anonymously by "a working 'medium' for the past twenty years", this little book was an inspiration for a young Harry Houdi…

Rhymes for the Nursery

Read by Jordan Watts


Ann Taylor


This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twin…

The Pianoforte Sonata

Read by Jordan Watts


John South Shedlock


John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…

An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae

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Edward Jenner


This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creati…

The Mesmeric Guide, for Family Use

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S. D. Saunders


Aimed at "those who judge of a Science by its practical utility and think that one minute spent in applying it to the benefit of mankin…

Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten)

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Oskar Pfungst


Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have…

The Sea Wolf

Read by Tom Crawford


Jack London


The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies…

The Chessmen of Mars

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


The Chessmen of Mars is a science fiction novel by the mental sword and physical pen wielding author Edgar Rice Burroughs. It the fifth inst…

The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair


It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better…

The Four Faces

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William Le Queux


Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a …

The Czar's Spy

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William Le Queux


William Le Queux was a British novelist and prolific writer of mysteries. Indeed, mystery surrounds the author himself as to whether he was …

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

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Jack London


This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 an…