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Peasant Tales of Russia
Collection of Russian peasant tales:"The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken …
Russian Fairy Tales
Russian Fairy Tales is an anthology of stories by a noted Russian scholar and translator. The 51 stories are thematically organized with int…
Idle Days in Patagonia
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …
Kriloff's Fables
Kriloff's Fables presents a rich collection of 86 fables by the renowned Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov, translated into English for modern au…
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…
Modern Russian Poetry
This volume...aims to present the lyrical poetry of Russian for the last hundred years by a selection of poems translated by the editors...T…
How a British Subject Became President of the United States
In 1880, the New York Times reported a curious story from St. Albans, Vermont, about a mysterious figure, an attorney and Democratic operati…
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was publishe…
When a Man's a Man
When a Man's a Man is a novel written by Harold Bell Wright, an author who was quite popular in the first decades of the 20th Century. This …
In the North Woods of Maine
Two fifteen-year-old boys---the younger of whom may have been fourteen---decide to hunt and trap away from home in the north woods of Maine.…
Three Stories & Ten Poems
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…
The Sleuth of St. James Square
Slightly connected detective stories which are developed in a rather unusual way. The solutions are logical and less miraculous than those o…
Tales of St. Austin's
Early short stories from Wodehouse focusing on life at St. Austin's, a fictional English public school. Also, Included are four humorous ess…
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms is often referred to as a war novel, which is true enough. There is certainly blood and gore, al…
The Torrents of Spring
The Torrents of Spring was Hemingway's second novel to be published. It would not be wrong to say that it is unique among the author's work …
Over the Ocean to Paris
Ted Scott is a young man who seems born to be an aviator. He comes from an humble background, fostered by an elderly couple who know little …
Alexander the Great
A relatively brief history of the life and conquests of Alexander the Great. - Summary by KevinS
Billie Bradley at Twin Lakes
Billie Bradley and her brother and their closest friends decide to summer in two rented cottages at Twin lakes, a small resort community. Th…
Ante-Nicene Christian Library
This LibriVox collection is the second volume in a series of New Testament Apocrypha. - Summary by KevinS
The Life of Josiah Henson
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is an autobiographical narrative given by J…