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Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

Read by Claire Goget


Edith Howes


A collection of three short stories about fairies, complete with good moral lessons (as every fairy tale should be). (Summary by Claire Goge…

Danglars Signature

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, …

01 - Less Bread! More Taxes!

In Sylvie and Bruno

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Lewis Carroll


The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional w…

Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

"THE MOST WONDERFUL THINGS HAVE HAPPENED"

In The Lost World

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezu…

A Match - Read by CG

In A Match

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Algernon Charles Swinburne


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the weekly poetry project for the we…

Essay 12 - Art

In Essays, First Series

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

Arabian Tunnel

In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Jules Verne


Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pea…

Halloween and Other Festivals

In Current Superstitions

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Fanny Dickerson Bergen


No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…

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In Jabberwocky

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Lewis Carroll


LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of J…

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In This Side of Paradise

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…

Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage

In The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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Howard Pyle


Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…

The Return Home

In Peter Pan

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J. M. Barrie


Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fa…

TWO WONDERFUL MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS -- The Rocky Mountain Sheep or Bighorn and the …

In The Burgess Animal Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess


Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…

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In Miracles

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Walt Whitman


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Miracles, by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March…

Christmas Bells - Read by CG

In Christmas Bells

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry projec…