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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Giaour

«The Giaour» is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. «The Giaour» proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically...

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George MacDonald - Cruel Painter

This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice...

Ned Troxel 1 hour 23 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

800

Booth Tarkington - Monsieur Beaucaire

A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. Since the duke himself hopes to mend his fortunes by wedding this very woman,...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 29 minutes

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Romance

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Ice Palace (version 3)

The story is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young southern woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, who becomes engaged one summer to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified northern town. The following...

Bellona Times 1 hour 2 minutes

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Poetry

935

William Wordsworth - Cottager to Her Infant

Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the...

Chris Caron and 12 more 14 minutes

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General Fiction

911

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rappaccini's Daughter

The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation....

Brett W. Downey 1 hour 12 minutes

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Romance

992

Joseph Conrad - Amy Foster

Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk....

Bellona Times 1 hour 21 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

793

Théophile Gautier - Clarimonde (or La Morte Amoreuse)

This is the story of a priest named Romauld, and his all-consuming love for the beautiful courtesan, Clarimonde. (Summary by Joy Chan)

Joy Chan 1 hour 23 minutes

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Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover

Poetry

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John Wilmot - Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 6th, 2009.

Amber Ruby and 7 more 12 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Edward Streeter - Dere Mable

Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in an...

Rob Kunkel 1 hour 3 minutes

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Poetry

969

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets from the Portuguese

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to...

Kirsten Ferreri 48 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

William Shakespeare - Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a...

Martin Clifton 33 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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