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Saint Francis of Assisi

by Johannes Jorgensen Read by dave7 4.7
Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day,…

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith Read by Stephen Escalera 4.7
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9…

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting Read by Phil Chenevert 4.7
This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who "Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rab…

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.9
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Mont…

Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by Noel Badrian 4.7
Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gos…

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

by Thornton W. Burgess Read by John Lieder 4.8
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk is another in the long list children's books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, Jimmy …

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving Read by Phil Chenevert 4.8
Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…

Tales of the Fish Patrol

by Jack London Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.7
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by Karen Savage 4.9
The timeless story of the young orphan girl sent by accident to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy, Anne, with her vivid imagination …

Children of the Lens

by E. E. “Doc” Smith Read by Mark Nelson 4.8
Earth faces a new threat from Eddore: the enemy has created its own version of the Lens and is sending Black Lensmen through hyperspace tube…

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

by John Muir Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- s…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain Read by Phil Chenevert 4.9
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. …

Scenes of Clerical Life

by George Eliot Read by Bruce Pirie 4.8
Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fictio…

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…

William

by Richmal Crompton Read by David Wales 4.8
The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

by Maurice Leblanc Read by Cate Barratt 4.7
Step into the world of Arsène Lupin, a master thief with a flair for the dramatic and a heart of gold. In this collection of short st…

Theological Orations

by Gregory Of Nazianzus Read by Jonathan Lange 4.8
After the death of the Arian Emperor Valens, the synod of Antioch in 379 asked Gregory to help resurrect Constantinople to Nicene orthodoxy.…

A Red Wallflower

by Susan Warner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A motherless girl finds life very lonely living with only her dour father and two servants in the quiet New England countryside. Lonely, tha…

Christianity and Liberalism

by John Gresham Machen and J. Gresham Machen Read by InTheDesert 4.9
The purpose of this book is not to decide the religious issue of the present day, but merely to present the issue as sharply and clearly as …

Dandelion Cottage

by Carroll Watson Rankin Read by Betsie Bush 4.9
Carroll Watson Rankin's best known novel is Dandelion Cottage, published in 1904 by Henry Holt and Company. She first wrote the story serial…

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