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William Blake - Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work...

41 minutes

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Poetry

494

Sir Walter Raleigh - Lie (version 2)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of «The Lie» by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the fortnightly poem for the period beginning September 16, 2012. The Lie is a political and social criticism poem probably...

Cynthia Moyer and 9 more 37 minutes

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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)

Erotica

512

Mark Twain - 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)

Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as «1601», this is a humorously risque work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author...

John Greenman 1 hour 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

439

Henry Fielding - Old Debauchees

Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other characters, including both of the Laroons, try to manipulate Jourdain for their...

1 hour 7 minutes

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Poetry

440

Alexander Pope - Rape of the Lock

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under...

Rhonda Federman 58 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

543

Mark Twain - Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the «Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal», is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how...

John Greenman 37 minutes

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Poetry

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John Dryden - Absalom and Achitophel

John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is an elaborate historical allegory using the political situation faced by King David (2 Samuel 14-18) to mirror that faced by Charles II. Each monarch...

Thomas A. Copeland 58 minutes

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Poetry

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Ambrose Bierce - Business

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Business by Ambrose Bierce. This was the weekly poetry project for August 2nd, 2009.

Annise and 16 more 24 minutes

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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

Dramatic Readings

563

Mark Twain - 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

Please note: this recording contains strong language. «1601,» wrote Mark Twain, «is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson,...

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Satire

606

Anton Chekhov - Proposal

The Proposal is a one act comic farce by Anton Chekhov. In Chekhov's Russia, marriage was a means of economic stability for most people. They married to gain wealth and possessions. In this play, the concept of...

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General Fiction

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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms

In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 — 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated , in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the...

Carl Manchester 11 minutes

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Satire

546

Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper — author of The Deerslayer , The Last of the Mohicans , etc — has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny, vicious little essay on the...

32 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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