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The Chickadee

In Bird Stories from Burroughs

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John Burroughs


What a better way to learn about birds than to read this delightful collection of interesting bird stories! John Burroughs was a nature essa…

THE SILENT SEA

In Dead Men Tell No Tales

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E.W. Hornung and E. W. Hornung


Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921) was an English author. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, …

03 - WAR FEVER IN WASHINGTON

In An Explorer in the Air Service

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Hiram Bingham


Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org…

The Pope of Peace

In Pope Pius the Tenth

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Frances Alice Forbes


Pope Saint Pius X (2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was Pope from 4 August 1903 to his death in 1914. He was t…

Book 1, Chapter 8: A Vocation

In Adam Bede

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George Eliot


Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously,…

JOAN OF ARC, PART II (Education)

In Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas de Quincey and Thomas De Quincey


The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…

Cleopatra and Antony

In Cleopatra

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Jacob Abbott


A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.

Be a Friend

In Short Poetry Collection 016

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Edgar Guest and Edgar A. Guest


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 016: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Israelites Numbered The Second Time

In The Bible For Young People Vol. 1

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Anonymous


"The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctri…

Introduction

In The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)

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James Fenimore Cooper


This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

A Case of Identity

In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were origina…

Sex in Dreams

In Dream Psychology

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Sigmund Freud


Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he or…

Chapter IX, Part 7

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 09)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is chapter 9 of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the accession of James II. This chapter covers part of the invasion…

Book 11

In The Odyssey

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Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer


The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

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