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Lily-Bell and Thistledown

In Flower Fables

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Louisa May Alcott


Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)

015 - Recipes. Chapter 8. Part 2.

In The Book of Household Management

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Isabella Beeton and Mrs. Isabella Beeton


"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…

Picture of Dorian Gray, The: Preface

In James Joyce in Context, Vol. 1: Telemachus

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Oscar Wilde


This is a project invented and created by LibriVox volunteers. It collects various works which James Joyce quotes and refers to in his epic…

A Thrush Before Dawn - Read by SW

In A Thrush Before Dawn

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Alice Meynell


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of A Thrush Before Dawn by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project for the w…

The Mississippi Scheme, Part 1

In Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

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Charles Mackay


The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…

Doing Good

In The Phoenix and the Carpet

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E. Nesbit


The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began…

00 - Introductory, How the World Looked Then

In Colonel Greatheart

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H. C. Bailey


This is a story of the English Civil War where a witching woman conquerors hearts and marks.

Bk 03, ch. 05: At Bombardas

In Les Misérables, Volume 1

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Victor Hugo


This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Book 5, Chapters 6-9

In Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1

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Sir Thomas Malory


Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, &quo…

How Doth the Little Busy Bee

In Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

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Various


Since this series of books is intended for all young people from oneto one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSERHYMES…

23 - Legends: Ion and Daedelus and Icarus

In Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

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E.M. Berens and E. M. Berens


This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of majo…

Cargoes

In Short Poetry Collection 065

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John Masefield


LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 065: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.

Ch. VI. The Armada Part 1

In Famous Sea Fights

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John R. Hale


I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I sha…