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George Santayana - Poems

George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his life writing. He is primarily known as a philosopher, his five-volume The...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1

Early Modern

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Justin McCarthy - History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1

Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and Swift, Bolingbroke and Mary Wortley Montagu, the Old Pretender and Bonnie...

Pamela Nagami 12 hours 17 minutes

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Single author

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Rainer Maria Rilke: Poems

A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. — Summary by Peter Tucker

Peter Tucker 46 minutes

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Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Hesiod - Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles

Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Heracles is the adventure of Heracles accepting an enemy's challenge to fight....

Arthur Krolman 2 hours 29 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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John Galsworthy - Patrician

The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she is not a widow as everyone supposes, but that her husband is still alive and...

Simon Evers 9 hours 49 minutes

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Poetry

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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy and Other Poems

Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first great successes. This volume also contains the small drama On the Tower, which...

Katie Rose and 16 more 1 hour 51 minutes

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Poetry

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Adam Lindsay Gordon - Poems

This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'. «The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name....

Larry Wilson and 20 more 5 hours 22 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Donald Wandrei - Raiders of the Universes

It was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeared. They were indeed Raiders of Universes because they had ravaged many...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 2 minutes

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Science Fiction

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E. E. Smith - Tedric

This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The immensely powerful hero, Tedric, is a man's man who refuses to accept the cruel...

Phil Chenevert 53 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Èmile

Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in French and German and in 1763 in English. The significance of Rousseau in education as well as in...

Anne and 2 more 28 hours 51 minutes

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Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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E. Louise Smythe - Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lists of reading words on each page, and these have been read by a child. —...

Sarah Jennings 1 hour 2 minutes

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

Political Science

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Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

«That government is best which governs least» is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s and 1850s. The environment became especially tense after the Fugitive Slave...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 7 minutes

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