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The Velveteen Rabbit

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Margery Williams


"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day...Written in 1922, The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How Toys Become Real is the tale of a sweet …

Mme. Giry's Revelations

In The Phantom of the Opera

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Gaston Leroux


An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doe…

A Runaway Reef

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…

Chapter 10

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Jerome K. Jerome


Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXXI - Canto XXXIV

In The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Lily and The Lion

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

The Ninth Chapter - The Monkeys' Council

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle

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Hugh Lofting


In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up…

Version 08

In The Song My Paddle Sings

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E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of "The Song My Paddle Sings" from the …

The Tale of Pigling Bland

In The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

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Beatrix Potter


Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

Version 6

In The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay

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William McGonagall and William Topaz Mcgonagall


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall, to celebrate April Fo…

Preface

In The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy


Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Vic…

The Cremation of Sam McGee

In Short Poetry Collection 006

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Robert Service and Robert W. Service


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 006: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Dover Beach

In Short Poetry Collection 004

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Matthew Arnold


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 004: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Chapter 13

In Dracula

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Bram Stoker


The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity…