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Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers

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Lewis Theobald - Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers

This play is based on story told in Cervantes' Don Quixote, and some believe it is a reconstruction of a lost play by Shakespeare and Fletcher. Duke Angelo and his son Roderick are concerned about the activities of...

1 hour 52 minutes

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Plays

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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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Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Maria Thompson Daviess - Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading)

Charlotte Powers is a woman who loves life, and is set to marry Nickols just as soon as she can figure herself out. However, coming home and meeting the charismatic pastor that seems to have influenced all her...

6 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Eleanor M. Ingram - Game and the Candle

Faced with inherited debts, an estate to maintain, and no money to pay for either, brothers John and Robert Allard have a difficult decision to make. How much of their integrity are they willing to compromise in order...

Arlene Joyce and 3 more 5 hours 35 minutes

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Dante Alighieri - New Life (La vita nuova)

One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the...

Mary J 2 hours 1 minute

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Gertrude Atherton - Sleeping Fires

The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a young woman from the love she had found. A story rich in fashion ad feminism...

Sharon Kilmer 6 hours 5 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Phantom Fortune, A Novel

Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime...

chocmuse and 8 more 20 hours 9 minutes

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Samuel Hopkins Adams - Wanted: A Husband

This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues you with the troubles and feminine woes of young Miss Darcy Cole. Being a...

Deborah Knight 5 hours 15 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Théophile Gautier - Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the subterranean tombs, of the precautions taken by the designers to baffle curiosity, of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 6 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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George MacDonald - Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2)

An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just with evil, strife, and terror but also with loss, failure, sacrifice, and...

Thomas A. Copeland 7 hours 37 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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George Bernard Shaw - Love Among the Artists

Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society a youthful...

Expatriate 11 hours 23 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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