Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death

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Franz von Dingelstedt - John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death

This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join him in Mayence, where he lives in poverty. We get to know his enemies and his...

Claudia Salto 2 hours 37 minutes

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Alexandre Dumas - Chicot the Jester

This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry III. The reign of King Henry III was plagued with rebellion and political...

John Van Stan 15 hours 29 minutes

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Curiosities of Street Literature

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about...

Ed Humpal and 27 more 21 hours 22 minutes

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Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

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Andrew Lang - Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens, and a few words are necessary to explain why the...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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James Weldon Johnson - Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written as a memoir of an unnamed biracial narrator who grew up in the South during...

James K. White 5 hours 5 minutes

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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

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James Weldon Johnson - Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid stigma, he has to pass as white. But would his sense of belonging and...

tiwo007 and 4 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - Man Who Found the Truth

An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a young man, spends a lifetime in prison. With brilliant psychological insight so characteristic of Leonid Andreyev's work, we follow this man telling his story...

Crln Yldz Ksr 3 hours 32 minutes

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Frederick Marryat - Jacob Faithful

Rebelling against the career chosen for him by his wealthy family, Frederic Marryat joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of 14. He first served as a midshipman in the 38-gun frigate «HMS Imperieuse» commanded by...

NoelBadrian 17 hours 23 minutes

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Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading)

Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert of Anne’s childhood. The young Rilla will need all her strength for the dark...

9 hours 52 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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George Gissing - Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing...

Peter Eastman 7 hours 44 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Childhood (version 2)

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels...

Expatriate 3 hours 54 minutes

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Alexandre Dumas - Marguerite de Valois

A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of deceased Henry II, is the novel's protagonist set against the infamous...

John Van Stan 20 hours 34 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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