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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis - Beauty and the Monster

A French theatrical adaptation of the famous fairy tale, The Beauty and the Monster is a drama of three characters — Beauty (Sabina), the Beast (Phanor) and Beauty's best friend, Phedima (the third wheel). — Summary...

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Plays

430

Edmund John Eyre - Lady of the Lake

At the request of Mr. Siddons, Manager and Patentee of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, the following Performance was composed. I am very sensible that Mr. Scott’s Poem of “The Lady of the Lake” afforded material for a...

1 hour 15 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

461

Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life composed several volumes of poetry, writing many poems which are still...

Gilles G. Le Blanc and 5 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Romance

518

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Little Gray Lady

As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great mistake she has made so long ago. This year, however, things are to play out...

Crln Yldz Ksr 41 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

510

Ann Radcliffe - EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts

In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in order to spy on his girlfriend, Aura, and see if she really loves him. He does...

Grant Hurlock 56 minutes

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Poetry

481

John Wilbye - Love not me for comely grace

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love not me for comely grace by John Wilbye. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 30, 2012 John Wilbye was an English madrigal composer, and is...

Algy Pug and 17 more 16 minutes

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General Fiction

523

Kate Douglas Wiggin - Old Peabody Pew

A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Maria Therese and 1 more 1 hour 28 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

490

William Dean Howells - Five O'Clock Tea

A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the ingenuous and delightful Mr. Willis Campbell. (Summary by Ruth Golding)...

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Poetry

456

Thomas Moore - Here, Take My Heart

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Here, Take My Heart by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 29, 2012. This weekly poem is one of the many love poems by the 19th-century Irish...

April Gonzales and 22 more 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

436

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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Poetry

513

Emily Dickinson - Lovers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Lovers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 27, 2012. The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since...

April Gonzales and 26 more 26 minutes

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Poetry

461

Madison Cawein - Window on the Hill

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Window on the Hill by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 22, 2012. Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the...

acousticwave and 18 more 24 minutes

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Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

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