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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colo…

American Indian Fairy Tales

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William Trowbridge Larned

With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…

Sarrasine

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Honoré de Balzac

Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s s…

War Is Kind (Collection)

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Stephen Crane

Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in…

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In The Rhodora

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

To celebrate Earth Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of The Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly p…

Chapter 08

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

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C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

Chapter 1 – Bretton

In Villette

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Charlotte Brontë

After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …

The Polka Dot Lady

In The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug (Version 2)

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Arthur Scott Bailey

"Little Mrs. Ladybug was a worker. Nobody could deny that. To be sure, she had to stop now and then to talk to her neighbors, because M…

Chapter 34

In The Spy

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cooper_jf and James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the A…