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On Our Selection

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Steele Rudd


The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…

Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)

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Steele Rudd


Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection""The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eig…

Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme

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C. J. Dennis


Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a w…

Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

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C. J. Dennis


"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in …

Digger Smith

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C. J. Dennis


“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and…

Bill & Doreen's Married Life

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C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (Selections from "Doreen")" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship"…

Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

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C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "The Songs of a Sentimental Blok…

Manufacture and Maintenance of Steam Engines, from "A Catechism of the Steam En…

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 005

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John Bourne


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

The Muses of Australia

In Wine and Roses

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Victor Daley


"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…

Two Cases for the Doctor by Steele Rudd

In Short Story Collection Vol. 079

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Steele Rudd


A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan D…

VIII Newton's Successors: Laplace

In A History of Astronomy

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Walter W. Bryant


In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occu…