\"I loved all the voices in this project and probably wouldn\u2019t have put the time into checking into this book without this LibriVox version of it. Great project and well done by all. What people can do really amazes me from time to time. This reminds me of how beautiful the world can be.\" \u2014 skinned mink","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/alice_in_wonderland_librivox/wonderland_ch_01_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10527843-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":200,"book_guid":"baee35e5cfc721baaca74ae957e7f66d","book_rating":4,"book_votes":63,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy","language_names":"English"},{"id":54239,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Princess of Mars","book_author":"Burroughs, Edgar Rice","book_description":"Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs\u2019s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandish society of ape-, tree- and lizardmen, red-, white-, yellowmen, brains on legs, strange bastions and curious apparatuses, where the strongest survives and women are needy beauties to be saved. How can something be so platitudinous and at the same time so imaginative and enthralling? Boys\u2019 book for sure. (Summary by Stephan)
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Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the \"travelers' tales\" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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\"A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder\" is the most popular of James De Mille's works. It was serialized posthumously in Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City in 1888. This satiric romance is the story of Adam More, a British sailor. Shipwrecked in Antarctica, he stumbles upon a tropical lost world of prehistoric animals, plants, and a cult of death-worshipping primitives. He also finds a highly developed human society which has reversed the values of Victorian society. Wealth is scorned and poverty revered; death and darkness are preferrable to life and light. Rather than accumulating wealth, the natives seek to divest themselves of it as quickly as possible. At the beginning of each year, the government imposes wealth (the burden of \"reverse taxation\") upon its unfortunate subjects as a form of punishment. A secondary plot about the four yachtsmen who find the manuscript forms a frame for the central narrative. [Condensed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Strange_Manuscript_Found_in_a_Copper_Cylinder ]
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Plot summary: J K Bangs has taken Alice from Lewis Carroll's \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d and lets her on a boring day travel with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat and the other of Carroll's familiar characters to Blunderland. The story is a well written Satire, a witty, humorous tale of adventure and city politics, a tale of Alice in a land where nothing is as it should be. (Summary by Lars Rolander)
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According to that quirky authority, James Boswell, Johnson penned his only work of prose fiction in a handful of days to cover the cost of his mother's funeral. The stylistic elegance of the book and its wide-ranging philosophical concerns give no hint of haste or superficiality.
Among other still burning issues Johnson's characters pursue questions of education, colonialism, the nature of the soul and even climate alteration.
Johnson's profoundest concern, however, is with the alternating attractions of solitude and social participation, seen not only as the ultimate life-choice but as the arena in which are played out the deepest fears of the individual: \"Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of Reason.\u201d (Summary by Martin Geeson)
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Living Age magazine in 1910 observed of The Christmas Angel, \"Not since Charles Dickens laid down his pen forever has there been a prettier Christmas story written, one more full of the real spirit of Christmas or conveying a more seasonable lesson.\" (Summary by Jan MacGillivray)
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The Well at the World's End is thought to be one of the first examples of an entirely fictional fantasy world, and has greatly influenced later fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book follows the travels of Ralph, a prince of a tiny country, as he disobeys his fathers wishes and runs away from home to adventure in the world, and seek out the fabled Well at World's End, said to grant eternal youth to those who drink from it. (Summary by BumbleVee)
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In the preface and epilogue, the author won't let his audience forget the troubled times in the real world, in the heat of World War I. (Summary by Anna Simon)
Proof-listeners were Rapunzelina and April Gonzales.","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/inbriefauthority_1302_librivox/inbriefauthority_01_anstey_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia804707.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/items/olcovers604/olcovers604-L.zip&file=6040092-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":6687,"book_guid":"c4a884aa27338a6022035715959dd23b","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":59985,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"City of the Sun","book_author":"Campanella, Tommaso","book_description":"A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latter's voyage to a utopian city. (Summary by Rapunzelina)","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/cityofthesun_ro_librivox/cityofthesun_1_campanella_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia601500.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/olcovers297/olcovers297-L.zip&file=2978348-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":7433,"book_guid":"37d41cfe205c6e212380eaed9a72c0ab","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":60262,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Shadows in the Moonlight","book_author":"Howard, Robert E.","book_description":"For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is one of the best. Conan was raiding with the Free Companions when they were trapped and slaughtered by the merciless Shah Amurath the great Lord of Akif. Conan is one of the very few who escape by hiding in the mud of the marshes like a beast living on raw snake and muskrat. Luck, which seems to have deserted him, smiles again and allows him the chance for revenge and he eagerly seizes it, destroying his enemy with fierce strokes. Barely escaping his soldiers with the slave girl Olivia, once a princess of Koth, they reach a deserted island that holds many enchantments and strange dangers. Then the pirates arrive and things become even bloodier. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/conanshadowsinmoonlight_pc_librivox/conanandshodowsinthemoonlight_1_howard_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":7755,"book_guid":"18c3c33fc9d370386f4e231184bf154d","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":60555,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Anthem (version 3)","book_author":"Rand, Ayn","book_description":"This Novella by Ayn Rand was first published in England in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the use of the word \"I\" is punishable by death). Rand, as a teenager living in Soviet Russia, initially conceived Anthem as a play. This is a novel upholding Rand's central principles of her philosophy and of her heroes: reason, values, volition, individualism. (Summary by Wikipedia and the Reader)","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/anthem_1308_librivox/anthem_01_rand_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia902806.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/olcovers80/olcovers80-L.zip&file=802982-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":8082,"book_guid":"3a809ff91afbc6bb26ad485437a7bcf6","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":60625,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Ghost: A Modern Fantasy","book_author":"Bennett, Arnold","book_description":"The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He thus meets the lead soprano, Rosetta Rosa, and falls hopelessly in love with her.
Alresca takes Foster under his wing and they travel to Alresca's home in Bruges. It is clear to Foster that Alresca has some strange obsession. Foster also notices a stranger who seems to be dogging his footsteps.
Things take an even more sinister turn when Alresca inexplicably dies. . .
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Image is an illustration from the Gutenberg text.
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His protagonist, Anodos, discovers on the day he comes of age a path leading into an alternative reality, where a rite of passage awaits him: an entire lifetime in a land of marvels resembling childhood imaginings and medieval romances.
The forces motivating him during his adventure, aside from the curiosity that induces him to enter Fairy Land in the first place, are a yearning after the feminine ideal and a desire to accomplish something worthwhile. Other people\u2019s kindness, love, wisdom, and high expectations support him, while malice, selfish exploitation, and tyranny challenge him. Nor are these hostile forces all purely external.
Rarely has an author explored so searchingly as MacDonald the soul of a faithful squire and a rejected lover\u2014for this is what Anodos is, when all is said and done. None of the most famous beta males in literature\u2014certainly not Vergil\u2019s \u201cfaithful Achates,\u201d not Cervantes\u2019 unforgettable Sancho Panza, not even Homer\u2019s Eumaios (\u201cOh! my swineherd!\u201d)\u2014is portrayed with the richness, depth, and multi-dimensionality of MacDonald\u2019s visitor to Fairy Land. Just possibly Spenser\u2019s Timias (Prince Arthur\u2019s squire, whose tale is told in books 3 and 4 of The Faerie Queene) could be MacDonald\u2019s model. Like Timias, Anodos accepts his supportive role with equanimity and even learns the value of unrequited love, and yet, also like Timias, he possesses courage, skill, and resolve. He also combats dark forces within himself, an effort that ultimately endows him with insight, surpassing his master\u2019s, into the darkness that masks as holiness\u2014to oppose which he gladly sacrifices his life. Before that moment he has learned the bittersweet joy of sacrifice when his heart's desire, whom his longing and effort have freed from durance vile, prefers the love of a greater man, but it is only death that can teach him the joy and the power of loving without need, of giving without thought of reciprocation.
And only that death which is self-abnegation can carry him across the threshold into manhood, which the future\u2019s inevitable adversity and defeats can never tarnish. (Summary by Thomas A. Copeland)","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/phantastes_a_faerie_romance_for_men_and_women_1402_librivox/phantastes_00_macdonald_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":8447,"book_guid":"b4f74ace710e52ca0423fb7770319f29","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":61092,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 3)","book_author":"Burroughs, Edgar Rice","book_description":"The fourth book of the Barsoom series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars takes up the story of Thuvia, now Princess of Ptarth, and Carthoris, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris. Thuvia is betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol in an arranged marriage. She spurns the advances of a suitor, Astok of Dusar, who then plots to abduct Thuvia, and frame Carthoris for the crime, igniting a war between Kaol, Ptarth and Helium. (Summary by Mark Nelson)
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Emerging in Pellucidar at an unknown location, David frees his captive. He names the place Greenwich and uses the technology he has brought to begin the systematic exploration and mapping of the unknown land while searching for his lost companions, Abner, Ghak, and Dian the Beautiful. He soon encounters and befriends a new ally, Ja the Mezop of the island country of Anoroc; later he finds Abner, from whom he learns that in his absence the human revolt against the Mahars has not been going well. In a parlay with the Mahars David bargains for information of his love Dian and his enemy Hooja the Sly One, which his foes agree to supply in return for the book containing the Great Secret of Mahar reproduction that David stole and hid in the previous novel. David undertakes to recover it, only to find that Hooja has been there before him and claimed Dian as his own reward of the Mahars! - Summary by wikipedia","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/pellucidar_version_2_1410_librivox/pellucidar2_00_borroughs_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia600607.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/35/items/olcovers172/olcovers172-L.zip&file=1726821-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":9218,"book_guid":"5f56e86889904178f2a4f508a98daa6e","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":61585,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Dreamer's Tales","book_author":"Dunsany, Lord","book_description":"\"A Dreamer's Tales\" is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock and others.
\"A Dreamer's Tales\" is a collection of sixteen fantasy short stories, and varies from the wistfulness of \"Blagdaross\" to the horrors of \"Poor Old Bill\" and \"Where the Tides Ebb and Flow\" to the social satire of \"The Day of the Poll.\" (text from Wikipedia articles on Lord Dunsany and \"A Dreamer's Tales\")","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/a_dreamers_tales_dm_1501_librivox/dreamerstales_01_dunsany_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia800609.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/olcovers200/olcovers200-L.zip&file=2002848-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":9270,"book_guid":"a0a23356a5cfed679b2c5d72a39de881","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":61628,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Night Land","book_author":"Hodgson, William Hope","book_description":"The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high \u2013 the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of Energy, known as the \"air clog\", powered from a subterranean energy source called the \"Earth Current\". For millennia, vast living shapes\u2014the Watchers\u2014have waited in the darkness near the pyramid. It is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human.
To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or worse an ultimate destruction of the soul. As the story commences, the narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of another, forgotten Lesser Redoubt. First one expedition sets off to succor the inhabitants of the Lesser Redoubt, whose own Earth Current has been exhausted, only to meet with disaster. After that the narrator sets off alone into the darkness to find the girl he has made contact with, knowing now that she is the reincarnation of his past love.
H. P. Lovecraft describes the novel as \"one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written\". Clark Ashton Smith wrote of it that \"In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. - Summary by Wikipedia
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Listen and be amazed at Howard's inventive genius. - Summary by phil Chenevert","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/rednails2_1501_librivox/rednails2_01_howard_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11312226-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":9340,"book_guid":"1df2bbc06dbe03a2f82f6783fed6ba9e","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":61655,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Black Amazon of Mars (Version 3)","book_author":"Brackett, Leigh Douglass","book_description":"In his final adventure on Mars, Eric John Stark acquires a relic of an ancient Martian hero, a gem or lens which is believed to be the key to the strength of Kushat, the city that guards the Gates of Death in the frozen north. A brief inspection of the artifact plunges Stark into the mind of its creator, where he sees, through those long-dead eyes, the unutterably ancient, beautiful, and evil Martian race who are imprisoned in the ice beyond the Gates of Death, alive and plotting to reclaim Mars for themselves and to extend the ice, their world, around the whole planet. Falling into the hands of roving outlaws, Stark survives torture and overcomes his cruel torturer, thereby winning the respect of the leader, who wears black clothing and a fearful mask. After a daring escape, Stark makes his way to Kushat, with the double intent of restoring the artifact and warning the city that the outlaw band intends to attack it. He finds both tasks difficult but at length succeeds in persuading the city officials of the danger. The battle which ensues costs both sides dearly, and it also precipitates the main action of the novel, for a citizen flees the falling city intent upon opening the Gates of Death in the hope that whatever lies beyond will overwhelm the invaders. Stark pursues him, still carrying the ancient amulet, and is himself pursued by the now unmasked, black-clad leader of the outlaw band. Finally three antagonists find themselves bound together in a struggle with the ancients for possession of the planet Mars. (This story was later expanded in book form under the title People of the Talisman 1964.) - Summary by T. A. 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It is a playing field to explore social perspectives, predictions of the future, and engage in adventures unbound into the richness of the human mind. - Summary by Amy Gramour","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/short_science_fiction_collection_052_1507_librivox/ssf052_atravellerintime_derleth_mrt_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":9401,"book_guid":"deda75b53e50a5ccfd38ddbe74b39b38","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":61781,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Portent","book_author":"MacDonald, George","book_description":"Overshadowed by the dark legend of the murderous rider of the horse with the loose shoe, Duncan Campbell sets out from his home in the Highlands to make his fortune in the world. When he finds the woman whose destiny is mingled with his, he must overcome first her indifference, then the malice of her family, then the forces of space and time. Will he ever put to rest the old curse? George MacDonald was an influence on many famous fantasy writers, including C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle. This fantasy romance derives from MacDonald's own Celtic tradition of the \"Second Sight\". It is a daydream, but one which holds up a mirror to human nature and shows us the truth of ourselves, as well as being a work of art in itself. 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This fantasy story collection includes The Cruel Painter (a vampire story), The Castle, The Wow O'Riven (a love story), The Broken Swords (a tale of war and redemption), The Gray Wolf (a werewolf story) and Uncle Cornelius: His Story. (Summary by Beth Thomas and Maxine) ","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/six_stories_1503_librivox/sixstories_01_macdonald_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":9507,"book_guid":"edb36a12463a6d461619700fee0253f","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":61788,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"King of Alsander (Dramatic Reading)","book_author":"Flecker, James Elroy","book_description":"First published in 1914, the King of Alsander is the only novel by James Elroy Flecker, best known as a poet, but also a noted scholar, linguist and diplomat. Flecker's love of learning, language and travel, and his keen satirical insight into politics are all in evidence in this phantasmagoric tale. As the author himself describes it: Here is a tale all romance - a tale such as only a Poet can write for you, O appreciative and generous Public - a tale of madmen, kings, scholars, grocers, consuls, and Jews: a tale with two heroines, both of an extreme and indescribable beauty: a tale of the South and of sunshine, wherein will be found disguises, mysteries, conspiracies, fights, at least one good whipping, and plenty of blood and love and absurdity: a very old sort of tale: a tale as joyously improbable as life itself. - Summary by Algy Pug
Cast list:
Norman Price: Phil Benson
John Oggs: Phil Benson
Labourer: Phil Benson
Mrs Gaffekin: Michele Eaton
Nancy: Michele Eaton
Peronella: Michele Eaton
Malsprita: Michele Eaton
Guard: Michele Eaton
Crowd: Michele Eaton
Vicar: Patrick Wallace
Old Man: Patrick Wallace
William Price: Patrick Wallace
Canthrop: Patrick Wallace
Cesano: Patrick Wallace
Wizened Man: Patrick Wallace
Consul: Patrick Wallace
Vorza: Patrick Wallace
Colonel: Patrick Wallace
Vicar\u2019s Daughter: Eden Rea-Hedrick
Widow Prasko: Eden Rea-Hedrick
Shopkeeper: Eden Rea-Hedrick
President: Eden Rea-Hedrick
Arnolfo: Eden Rea-Hedrick
Ianthe: Eden Rea-Hedrick
Drakina: Eden Rea-Hedrick
Cuvas: Eden Rea-Hedrick
Peter Smith: Eden Rea-Hedrick
Lady: Eden Rea-Hedrick
John Gaffekin: Alan Weyman
King: Alan Weyman
Butler: Alan Weyman
Doctor: Alan Weyman
Clerk: Alan Weyman
Makzelo: Alan Weyman
Father Algio: Alan Weyman
Captain of the Guard: Alan Weyman
Shoemaker: Algy Pug
Count Arnolfo: Algy Pug
Stage Directions: Algy Pug
Edited by: Algy Pug
Proof Listener: Mark Chulsky
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Along the way, he travels through various towns and wildernesses and meets -- and is sometimes led astray by -- a host of interesting people including a mysterious knight, a beautiful woman who may be a goddess, a treacherous servant, a brave tavern wench, a barbarian warrior, a solitary sage, and a sadistic king. 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The stories included are \u201cCross Purposes\u201d \u201cThe Carasoyn\u201d \u201cBon-Bon\u201d \u201cThe Child That Went With The Fairies\u201d \u201cMadam Crowl\u2019s Ghost\u201d and as an added bonus the beautiful (and cautionary) fairy poem \u201cQueen Mab\u201d by Thomas Hood. Summary by kadath9969","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/fantasy_faeries_ghosts_sc_1508_librivox/fantasyfaeriesandghosts_01_various_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":9732,"book_guid":"5b4e68c8d2b64caca33fa57a8c3b45db","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":62129,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Fifty-one Tales (version 2)","book_author":"Dunsany, Lord","book_description":"A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometimes ending with an unexpected outcome, these stories are well rooted in mythology and speak of things beyond the thin veil of reality. - Summary by Rosslyn Carlyle","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/fiftyonetales_1505_librivox/fiftyonetales_01_dunsany_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia801504.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/23/items/olcovers197/olcovers197-L.zip&file=1979061-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":9887,"book_guid":"383a858b9c4df82242ec58a4a5eeefec","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":62260,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Short Science Fiction Collection 053","book_author":"Various","book_description":"Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author\u2019s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires thought and plants seeds that have led to advances in science. The genre can spark an interest in the sciences and is cited as the impetus for the career choice of many scientists. It is a playing field to explore social perspectives, predictions of the future, and engage in adventures unbound into the richness of the human mind. - Summary by Amy Gramour","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/short_science_fiction_collection_053_1511_librivox/ssf053_assesofbalaam_garrett_ta_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":10033,"book_guid":"2b20def13e2b12c343be7c2406aa31e5","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":62323,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Lord Tedric","book_author":"Smith, E. E.","book_description":"Time is the strangest of all mysteries. Relatively unimportant events, almost unnoticed as they occur, may, in hundreds of years, result in Ultimate Catastrophe. On Time Track Number One, that was the immutable result. But on Time Track Number Two there was one little event that could be used to avert it\u2014the presence of a naked woman in public. So, Skandos One removed the clothing from the Lady Rhoann and after one look, Lord Tedric did the rest! - Summary by Original Gutenberg text","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/lord_tedric_1507_librivox/lordtedric_01_smith_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10304567-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":10100,"book_guid":"21deaa67ed3212d0303820ffcd04324b","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":62424,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Lord Tedric (version 2)","book_author":"Smith, E. 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So, Skandos One removed the clothing from the Lady Rhoann and after one look, Lord Tedric did the rest! - (Summary in part from Gutenberg text )","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/lordtedricversion2_1508_librivox/lordtedricversion2_01_smith_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10304567-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":10210,"book_guid":"2f924a02c3ca6e7d918e84e57da00bca","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":62456,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Sabotage in Space","book_author":"Rockwell, Carey","book_description":"This book is part of the on-going adventures of Tom Corbett in the Space Cadet Stories. Tom, Astro and Roger are determined to find the saboteurs but get framed in the process, risking court martial and expulsion from the Space Academy. NOTE: Carey Rockwell is a pseudonym used by Grosset & Dunlap. 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Moreover, she questions whether she is of this world and this time, or some other realm altogether. - Summary by Amy Gramour","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/secret_power_1603_librivox/secretpower_01_corelli_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia600604.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/26/items/olcovers289/olcovers289-L.zip&file=2893161-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":10258,"book_guid":"399312f4fae7fb8556e97940247105c3","book_rating":5,"book_votes":1,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":62535,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"The Dunwich Horror","book_author":"Lovecraft, H. P.","book_description":"In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purpose of destroying the world and delivering it to ancient gods to rule, and only an aged university librarian can stop them. 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The genre can spark an interest in the sciences and is cited as the impetus for the career choice of many scientists. It is a playing field to explore social perspectives, predictions of the future, and engage in adventures unbound into the richness of the human mind. - Summary by Amy Gramour","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/short_science_fiction_collection_054_1602_librivox/ssf054_1000aplate_mckenty_mja_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":10371,"book_guid":"c850bcc05e0c9ad9a50d06a7259c2b08","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":62775,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories","book_author":"Bump, Charles Weathers","book_description":"A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not. - Summary by Amy Gramour","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/mermaid_of_druid_lake_and_other_stories_1606_librivox/mermaidofdruidlake_01_bump_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":10606,"book_guid":"4078e65ae0b4ec020da3928ab74dd79b","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":62816,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Short Science Fiction Collection 055","book_author":"Various","book_description":"Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author\u2019s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires thought and plants seeds that have led to advances in science. The genre can spark an interest in the sciences and is cited as the impetus for the career choice of many scientists. It is a playing field to explore social perspectives, predictions of the future, and engage in adventures unbound into the richness of the human mind.","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/short_science_fiction_collection_055_1607_librivox/ssf055_accidentaldeath_baily_ad_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":10654,"book_guid":"b9797aa446cf6cf5e88d40061f4eff","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"English"},{"id":63269,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"M\u00fcnchhausen","book_author":"B\u00fcrger, Gottfried August","book_description":" Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande - Feldz\u00fcge und lustige Abenteuer des Freiherrn von M\u00fcnchhausen, wie er dieselben bei der Flasche im Zirkel seiner Freunde selbst zu erz\u00e4hlen pflegt. * Die Geschichten von M\u00fcnchhausen geh\u00f6ren in die Tradition der L\u00fcgengeschichten, die weit in die Literaturgeschichte zur\u00fcckreicht. Die historische Person Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von M\u00fcnchhausen erz\u00e4hlte vielleicht schon w\u00e4hrend seiner Stationierung in Riga, sicher aber nach seiner R\u00fcckkehr nach Bodenwerder etwa von 1755 an im Freundeskreis auf besondere Art L\u00fcgengeschichten und erreichte damit \u00fcberregionale Bekanntheit. Nur von vier Geschichten im sp\u00e4ter erschienenen Buch wei\u00df man, dass er sie wirklich erz\u00e4hlt hat. (Summary by wikipedia)
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Das humoristische Kunstm\u00e4rchen \"Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober\" ist nach Hoffmanns eigenem Bekunden \"die lose, lockere Ausf\u00fchrung einer scherzhaften Idee\". Es lag dem Autor fern, sich \u00fcber missgebildete Menschen lustig zu machen (der einzige, der dies in der Geschichte tut, der Student Fabian, wird vom Magier Prosper Alpanus abgestraft). Die Bezeichnung des Zaches als \"Missgeburt\" soll vielmehr von vorn herein die charakterliche und fachliche Inkompetenz des sp\u00e4teren Ministers deutlich machen. \"Klein Zaches\" ist eine humorvolle, ironische und skurrile Geschichte und eine teilweise groteske Satire auf blinden Wissenschaftsglauben, h\u00f6fisches Leben, Politiker und das Obrigkeitsdenken. (Zusammenfassung von Karlsson) ","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/kleinzaches_1309_librivox/kleinzaches_01_hoffmann_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia802700.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/19/items/olcovers127/olcovers127-L.zip&file=1277036-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":8174,"book_guid":"d07586799efcc62a742c656517927e6f","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"German"},{"id":63635,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"letzte M\u00e4rchen","book_author":"Keller, Paul","book_description":"\u201eDas letzte M\u00e4rchen\u201c, eine Geschichte, in der ein Journalist in ein unterirdisches M\u00e4rchenreich eingeladen wird, um dort eine Zeitung aufzubauen, und dabei in Intrigen innerhalb des K\u00f6nigshauses hineinger\u00e4t. - Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/letzte_marchen_rbp_1402_librivox/letztemaerchen_01_keller_64kb.mp3","book_image":null,"book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":8460,"book_guid":"29eb0ec672c212e1e2fef52cc2beb945","book_rating":null,"book_votes":null,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"fantasy fiction","language_names":"German"}]}