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Henry James - Collaboration

It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French poet and a German composer come to admire one another's work and decide to...

David Wales 57 minutes

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - House of the Dead

The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp...

Expatriate 11 hours 30 minutes

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H. G. Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through

«Mr. Britling Sees It Through» is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes...

Peter Eastman 17 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment,...

Expatriate 11 hours 1 minute

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May Sinclair - Audrey Craven

In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncracies acquired a thoroughly undeserved reputation for originality. In fact, Audrey is a shallow, selfish,...

Expatriate 7 hours 18 minutes

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Theodor Storm - Rider on the White Horse

Hauke Haien, a young man of 24 years, has just beome dikemaster in Northern Frisia. Against the resistance of many of the townfolk, he has a new dike built, not according to the old customs, but to his own...

Availle 4 hours 28 minutes

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Lily Dougall - Zeit-Geist

«When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subject of the following sketch. Having applied to the school-master in the town...

Jacob Paul Starr and 1 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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Henry James - Lady Barbarina

Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost a staple of late...

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 53 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country (version 2)

Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 15 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Sanctuary (version 2)

Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a terrible secret. — Summary by Elizabeth Klett

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 51 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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E. Pauline Johnson - Fire - Flowers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire — Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18, 2013. Fire-Flowers is taken from the book, Flint and Feather: Collected...

ashleighjane and 16 more 16 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3)

In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and swears off drink, until his wife and daughter return eighteen years later,...

Alisson Veldhuis 11 hours 29 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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