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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)

The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God...

1 hour 17 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Three Thousand Dollars

This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the confines of Mr. Stoughton's business concern. Nobody seems to have any clue...

Roger Melin 1 hour 28 minutes

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2)

Children's Fiction

499

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who...

ashleighjane 1 hour 8 minutes

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Richard Harding Davis - Amateur

On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist in finding people, Mr. Ford agrees to help her in her quest. However,...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 1 minute

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Richard Harding Davis - Make-Believe Man

Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer «Patience» for his holiday, and when one has a man with such a vivid imagination like Joseph Forbes Kinney as a travel companion, who...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 21 minutes

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Erotica

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Erotica Romana

Also known as the «Roman Elegies,» Erotica Romana is von Goethe's literary tribute to human sexuality and eroticism. Written in 24 elegies to emulate classical Roman elegy writers such as Tibullus, Propertius, and...

A. E. Maroney 45 minutes

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Children's Fiction

461

Owen Wister - New Swiss Family Robinson

A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 28 minutes

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General Fiction

497

Mark Twain - Stolen White Elephant (Version 2)

«The Stolen White Elephant» was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes...

John Greenman 51 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Ruby and the Caldron

A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it, but who, of the few guests, might have the jewel, and how to solve the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 9 minutes

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Siege of Corinth

In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: revealing the closing scenes of the conflict through the eyes of Lanciotto — a...

Nathan 58 minutes

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Children's Fiction

452

Johanna Spyri - Moni the Goat-Boy

Moni is the goat boy who takes care of all the goats belonging to the people of Fideris, Switzerland. He loves to sing, yodel, and whistle while he romps with the goats all day long on the mountains. His favorite is a...

Abigail Rasmussen 1 hour 1 minute

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Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University

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Owen Wister - Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University

Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 27 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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