More commonly known today as ‘Twas the Night before Christmas, this poem by Clement C. Moore has become a holiday classic.
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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Running time: 7 hours, 36 minutes
Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
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This book runs 7 hours, 36 minutes.
The Story of Urashima Taro, The Fisher Lad
The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage
The Adventures of Kintaro, The Golden Boy
The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die
The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child
The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar
The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher
The Story of the Old Man who made Withered Trees to Flower
The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab
The White Hare and the Crocodiles
The Story of Prince Yamato Take
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank Stockton
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Running time: 7 hours, 15 minutes
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Chapter 1: The Bold Buccaneers
Chapter 2: Some Masters in Piracy
Chapter 3: Pupils in Piracy
Chapter 4: Peter the Great
Chapter 5: The Story of a Pearl Pirate
Chapter 6: The Surprising Adventure of Bartholemy Portuguez
Chapter 7: The Pirate Who Could Not Swim
Chapter 8: How Bartholemy Rested Himself
Chapter 10: The Story of Roc, the Brazilian
Chapter 12: L’olonnois the Cruel
Chapter 13: The Resurrected Pirate
Chapter 14: Villany on a Grand Scale
Chapter 16: A Pirate Potentate
Chapter 17: How Morgan Was Helped by some Religious People
Chapter 18: A Piratical Aftermath
Chapter 19: A Tight Place for Morgan
Chapter 20: The Story of a High-Minded Pirate
Chapter 21: Exit Buccaneer; Enter Pirate
Chapter 22: The Great Blackbeard
Chapter 23: True-Hearted Sailor
Chapter 24: A Greenhorn Under the Black Flag
Chapter 25: Bonnet Again to the Front
Chapter 26: The Battle of the Sand Bars
Chapter 27: A Six Weeks’ Pirate
Chapter 28: The Story of Two Women Pirates
Chapter 29: A Pirate from Boyhood
Chapter 30: A Pirate of the Gulf
Chapter 31: The Pirate of the Buried Treasure
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Edgar Allen Poe, selected short works
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore
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Section 2: Proletarians and Communists 00:27:24
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Running time: 8 hours, 17 mminutes
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00 Preface, Dedication, Disclaimer
01 I Journey to the House of Shaws
03 I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle
04 I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws
06 What Befell at the Queen’s Ferry
09 The Man With the Belt of Gold
15 The Lad With the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull
16 The Lad With the Silver Button: Across Morven
18 I Talk With Alan in the Wood of Lettermore
20 The Flight in the Heather: The Rocks
26 End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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01. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised
02. Matthew Cuthbert is Surprised
03. Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised
08. Anne’s Bringing-Up Is Begun
09. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Properly Horrified
11. Anne’s Impressions of Sunday School
13. The Delights of Anticipation
15. A Tempest in the School Teapot
16. Diana is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
19. A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
20. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
21. A New Departure in Flavorings
22. Anne is Invited Out to Tea
23. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor
24. Miss Stacy and her Pupils Get Up a Concert
25. Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves
27. Vanity and Vexation of Spirit
30. The Queen’s Class is Organized
31. Where the Brook and River Meet
The Little Princess 1939 movie with Shirley Temple
Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936 film
This 1936 film starring Mickey Rooney is based on the book Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Pinocchio radio theater
General Mills Radio Adventure Theater: Pinocchio
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The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne
Summary: Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as idyllic as in his dreams. Shipwrecked on a large, uninhabited island, Ralph and his fellow survivors, Jim and Peterkin, discover a world of hostile natives and villainous pirates. Danger, high adventure, and wonders of the sea greet them at every turn. When all seems lost, they find help from an unexpected source. (Summary by Tom Weiss for Librivox)
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Running time: 10 hours, 37 minutes
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
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Chapter 01
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
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Book summary, taken from Librivox: Many readers will already be familiar with Uncle Remus’ favorite animal characters Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Fox among them and some of the popular tales concerning them. (To this day, “tar baby” as an expression for a particularly sticky situation that is almost impossible to solve, has passed into the English language and common use.) Even people who have never read any of these tales will know exactly why you don’t throw a rabbit into a briar patch, mainly because Walt Disney produced his first movie ever to use professional actors with animation, called “Song of the South”, based on the Uncle Remus tales.
Joel Chandler Harris, a newsman in Georgia, grew up listening to folktales told by the local black population. Later, he published his version of these tales in a series of stories printed in the Atlanta Constitution. The tales of, and by, Harris’ chief character Uncle Remus, an old black man scrabbling to make his living in the post-Civil War South, were extremely popular and widely read. Harris’ use of innovative spelling to give the reader a sense of the black dialect was considered novel.
While this is not a book that will pass a current political correctness test, due to its use of labels for black folks which have gone out of polite conversation, Uncle Remus is a largely sympathetic look at post-war plantation life. Uncle Remus himself is a warm, folksy man of good humor and dry wit, and after finishing his animal stories, the remaining sayings and tales are a moment of history frozen in amber. (Summary by Mark for Librivox)
LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION
I. Uncle Remus initiates the Little Boy
II. The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
III. Why Mr. Possum loves Peace
IV. How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox
V. The Story of the Deluge, and how it came about
VI. Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox
VII. Mr. Fox is again victimized
VIII. Mr. Fox is “outdone” by Mr. Buzzard
IX. Miss Cow falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit
X. Mr. Terrapin appears upon the Scene
XII. Mr. Fox tackles Old Man Tarrypin
XIII. The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf
XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs
XV. Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr. Rabbit bags the Game
XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, he’s a Good Fisherman
XVII. Mr. Rabbit nibbles up the Butter
XVIII. Mr. Rabbit finds his Match at last
XIX. The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow
XX. How Mr. Rabbit saved his Meat
XXI. Mr. Rabbit meets his Match again
XXII. A Story about the Little Rabbits
XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear
XXIV. Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog
XXV. How Mr. Rabbit lost his Fine Bushy Tail
XXVI. Mr. Terrapin shows his Strength
XXVII Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on his Tail
XXIX. Mr. Fox gets into Serious Business
XXX. How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust
XXXIII. Why the Negro is Black
XXXIV. The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox
His Songs
Revival Hymn, Camp-Meeting Song, Corn-Shucking Song
De Big Bethel Church, Time Goes by Turns
His Sayings
Jeems Rober’son’s Last Illness, Uncle Remus’s Church Experience, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey
Turnip Salad as a Text, A Confession, Uncle Remus with the Toothache
The Phonograph, Race Improvement, In the Role of a Tartar
A Case of Measles, The Emigrants, As a Murderer
His Practical View of Things, That Deceitful Jug, The Florida Watermelon
Uncle Remus preaches to a Convert, As to Education, A Temperance Reformer
As a Weather Prophet, The Old Man’s Troubles, The Fourth of July
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Beginning of the Armadillos
How the First Letter was Written
The Crab that Played with the Sea
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
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Chapter 1- Mowgli’s Brothers (part 1)
Chapter 1 – Mowgli’s Brothers (part 2) + Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
Chapter 2 – Kaa’s Hunting (part 1)
Chapter 2 – Kaa’s Hunting (part 2) + Road-Song of the Bandar-Log
Chapter 3 – Tiger! Tiger! (part 1)
Chapter 3- Tiger! Tiger! (part 2) + Mowgli’s Song
Chapter 4 – The White Seal (part 1)
Chapter 4 – The White Seal (part 2) + Lukannon
Chapter 5- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi + Darzee’s Chant
Chapter 6 – Toomai of the Elephants + Shiv and the Grasshopper
Chapter 7 – Her Majesty’s Servants + Parade Song of the Camp Animals
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
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CHAPTER I. NAT
CHAPTER VIII. PRANKS AND PLAYS
CHAPTER XIV. DAMON AND PYTHIAS
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
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Total running time: 9 hours, 58 minutes
04 – Hans and Gretel Find a Friend
05 – Shadows in the Home
08 – Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin
09 – The Festival of Saint Nicholas
10 – What the Boys Saw & Did in Amsterdam
11 – Big Manias and Little Oddities
16 – Haarlem, The Boys Hear Voices
20 – Jacob Poot Changes the Plan
21 – Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare
22 – The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous
27 – The Merchant Prince & the Sister-Princess
29-30 – A Day of Rest – Homeward Bound
35 – Bones and Tongues
36 – A New Alarm
