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William Cowper - Retired Cat

William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English...

Algy Pug and 12 more 1 hour 16 minutes

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dirge for the Year

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 17 minutes

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Romance

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Porter Emerson Browne - Fool There Was

Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young...

Roger Melin 5 hours 39 minutes

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War & Military

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Charles Homer Haskins - Normans in European History

Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 5 minutes

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Philoctetes (Campbell Translation)

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven tragedies of Sophocles...

Expatriate 1 hour 27 minutes

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King James Version

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV), Complete

The 1769 Oxford Edition. The King James Bible is one of the most important books in the English speaking world, so influential that its language permeates facets of society from religion, politics, literature, art,...

Michael Armenta 100 hours 45 minutes Bible (King James Version)

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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 7

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 7

In Volume 7, the degradation and humiliation of Clarissa continue, from all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness of the devilish rake Lovelace, while her moral greatness and superiority to Lovelace...

Nicole Lee 8 hours 58 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Juju

A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 41 minutes

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Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers

History

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers

Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 8 hours 30 minutes

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Christianity - Commentary

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer - Joseph: Beloved, Hated, Exalted

I remember seeing the huge Matterhorn reflected, in its minutest details, in a small mountain lakelet, many miles distant; and similarly, the life of Jesus is remarkably mirrored in this touching story. In fact, there...

MaryAnn 5 hours 33 minutes

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Trachiniai (Campbell Translation)

Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. The story begins with Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, relating...

Expatriate 1 hour 11 minutes

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Joseph Ashby-Sterry - Christmas Duet

Joseph Ashby-Sterry was an English poet and novelist. He works include Boudoir Ballads, a collection of poetry, now out of print. This poem is taken from the 1888 edition of The Lazy Minstrel. — Summary by Wikipedia

Bruce Kachuk and 7 more 24 minutes

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