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Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

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Sinclair Lewis - Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer...

John W. Michaels 13 hours 34 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the «major phase» of James' career. The Golden Bowl...

Lee Ann Howlett 22 hours 5 minutes

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523

Laura Lee Hope - Moving Picture Girls

Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City — times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a new play, an old voice...

Cori Samuel 4 hours 35 minutes

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514

Arnold Bennett - Old Wives' Tale

The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in...

Andy Minter 23 hours 18 minutes

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Ada Cambridge - Sisters

Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 — July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recognition as Australia’s first woman poet of note, her longer term reputation...

Lucy Burgoyne 11 hours 25 minutes

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544

Edith Wharton - Summer

The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better known novel,...

Robin Cotter 5 hours 39 minutes

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Romance

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Philip Verrill Mighels - Thurley Ruxton

This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elite hostesses. In order to draw them into her social circle, she allows all...

Paul Hansen 12 hours 25 minutes

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James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man. (Summary by Peter Bobbe)

Peter Bobbe 9 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

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Willa Sibert Cather - O Pioneers!

O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town near Glenvil) around the turn of the 20th century. The main character,...

rachelellen 5 hours 48 minutes

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628

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous...

Nerijus and 13 more 23 hours 26 minutes

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557

Gene Stratton-Porter - Michael O'Halloran

The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to “Be Square!” This is a warm and joyous story of how Michael makes life...

Mary Anderson 14 hours 28 minutes

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James Joyce - Ulysses

NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places...

Hugh McGuire and 12 more 32 hours 39 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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