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Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu

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Lionel Giles


If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to …

Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West

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William Macleod Raine


Dave Sanders, a young Arizona cowboy, is a classic western hero: honest, brave, intelligent and caring. This is a story of how he navigates …

The Cartels Jungle

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Irving E. Cox, Jr.


In most ideally conceived Utopias the world as it exists is depicted as a mushrooming horror of maladjustment, cruelty and crime. In this st…

The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel

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G. T. Fleming-Roberts


Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara S…

The Great Gatsby (Version 3)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


A novel set in the roaring 20's follows Nick Carroway, a young, single veteran turned bond salesman as he is thrust into the high society of…

The Nursery ''Alice''

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Lewis Carroll


A shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . . . adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". . …

Eureka: A Prose Poem

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Edgar Allan Poe


Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition "Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are".…

Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''

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Bill Nye


There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong.…

Shorty McCabe

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Sewell Ford


Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only…

The Incubator Baby

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Ellis Parker Butler


Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…

Jātaka Tales

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H. T. Francis


Jātaka tales are ancient Indian folktales that form a part of Buddhist teaching, telling stories of the Buddha’s past lives. Akin to Aesop’s…

The Kingdom of Happiness

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Jiddu Krishnamurti


The first publication of talks given by Jiddu Krishnamurti, a uniquely original thinker of the 20th century. Selected as a boy by leaders of…

Anthem (Version 6)

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Ayn Rand


A novelette set in the distant future, perhaps thousands of years. Technology has been lost and advancement suppressed. The people have eith…

XLI Poems

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E. E. Cummings


A book of 41 poems by E. E. Cummings classified as Songs I-XII [poems 1-12], Chansons Innocentes I-II [poems 13-14], Portraits I-IX [poems…

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume 1

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Carl Sandburg


A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an acc…

Before Edgehill Fight - Read by SWS

In Before Edgehill Fight

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Rudyard Kipling


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Before Edgehill Fight by Rudyard Kipling.This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7, 2019…

Switzerland Part I: In earliest times: Historical note

In The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

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Eva March Tappan


This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …

Californian Verse by Bret Harte

In My First Book (Version 2)

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Various


Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…