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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Leavenworth Case (Version 2)

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a female. Indeed, it was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who came to be...

Kevin Green 12 hours 6 minutes

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Poetry

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G. K. Chesterton - Greybeards at Play

G.K. Chesterton's first publication, «Greybeards at Play» is a collection of poetry and accompanying illustrations. The work is marked by the irreverent whimsy and ancient delight that would eventually be recognized...

5pak 11 minutes

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Plays

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Alexandre Dumas, fils - Princess of Bagdad

Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of the proprieties of society? Are not women like you above all that? Was I to come delicately and hypocritically to offer your husband the sum he stood in need of?...

1 hour 59 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Charles Lamb - Last Essays of Elia

Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life...

Tony Addison 10 hours 18 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Arthur Symons - Figures of Several Centuries

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and...

Jim Locke and 12 more 8 hours 59 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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E. Nesbit - Wet Magic (version 2)

Are mermaids real? Well of course they are! Just ask the four very English children who, when on vacation by the sea, find out about one being held in a circus and, since 'they die in captivity' decide on a daring...

Mike Justice and 4 more 4 hours 53 minutes

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Poetry

876

Short Poetry Collection 156

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2016.

John Burlinson and 14 more 1 hour 40 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Memoirs

974

Thomas Babington Macaulay - Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

An review essay of «Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay». The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays. «Hundreds of remarkable persons had passed in review...

Barbara Baker 2 hours 47 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Casper S. Yost - Patience Worth

Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. Contact with the spirit world or parlor trick? If the latter, it was well...

Lynne T 5 hours 5 minutes

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Poetry

970

William Butler Yeats - Deep-Sworn Vow

This is the weekly poem for the week of 10.01.2016. Have fun. — Summary by Stav Nisser.

Algy Pug and 12 more 8 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

996

Laurence Hope - Hira-Singh's Farewell to Burmah

Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. She was born in England and joined her father in 1881, who was employed in the British Army at Lahore (The traditional capital...

elliot and 7 more 25 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Louis Tracy - de Bercy Affair

A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. Circumstances lead Scotland Yard to several suspects, including her wealthy...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 52 minutes

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