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The Technique of the Mystery Story
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Carolyn Wells
For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwe…
Figures of Several Centuries
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Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 041
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 041: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Beacon Second Reader
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James Hiram Fassett and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
In the "Beacon Second Reader" the author has chosen for his stories only those of recognized literary merit; and while it has been…
My First Book
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Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
If I May
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A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for…
The Golden Milestone
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…
Erzählungen für Kinder
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Neben berühmten Erzählungen wie "Max und Moritz - Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen" von Wilhelm Busch und zwei d…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 004
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Various
Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
The Powder of Sympathy
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Christopher Morley
Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…
Snow-Flakes
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 20…
The Crystal Pointers
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank W. Boreham was a Baptist preacher from England who spent many years in New Zealand and Australia, but also traveled extensively in the…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch! or The Remarkable Peregrinations of …
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A. F. Hill
Follow a Very Funny Man make the best and the worst of his infirmity!! (Summary by Christine Rottger)The language and ideas in this book ref…
On Anything
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Hilaire Belloc
Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days…
Märchen
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Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
Sieben lange Märchen in einer schönen Sprache - Summary by seito
He
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Andrew Lang
This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer)You will not think, therefore, tha…
Gossip in a Library
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Edmund Gosse
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…
Plum Pudding (version 2)
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Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…