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Essays & Short Works

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Agnes Repplier - Americans and Others

A collection of sometimes biting, always clever commentaries on some of life's foibles — as apt today as when Ms. Repplier wrote them in 1912. Though less know to modern readers, Repplier was in her prime ranked among...

Mary Schneider 5 hours 7 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: «We Meet Not As We Parted,» by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3rd, 2010.

Amy Gramour and 14 more 20 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Arthur Graeme West - Diary of a Dead Officer

Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West's...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 43 minutes

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Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be

Family & Relationships

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Annie Besant - Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be

In this short pamphlet, Annie Besant — a well-known British women's rights activist — lays down British marriage laws as they were at her time. She opposes the view of married women as mere property of their husbands,...

Tony Addison and 1 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Young's Literal Translation

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Young's Literal Translation - Bible (YLT) 20: Proverbs

This book contains small morsels of great practical wisdom and instruction for all. Solomon, no doubt, wrote the majority of this book, but the last proverb was authored by a King Lemuel, who wrote of the wisdom...

Mark Penfold 1 hour 34 minutes Bible (Youngs Literal Translation)

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Religion

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Sister Mary Jean Dorcy - Crown for Joanna

She was born a princess, heir to her father’s kingdom of Portugal, and she might at will have reigned from almost any throne in Europe. But instead of this, she made what to her world seemed a thoroughly mad choice –...

Maria Therese 1 hour 49 minutes

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Romance

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Wilkie Collins - Poor Miss Finch

“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it awful?” Ha! Lucilla Finch is the wisest of all the characters, in spite of,...

Sandra G 20 hours 5 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 091

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of September and October 2010.

Roseanne Schmidt and 22 more 49 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lafcadio Hearn - In Ghostly Japan

This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 5 more 4 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Room in the Dragon Volant

J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom he glimpses...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage , published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s literary masterpieces. The story follows Phillip Carey from early childhood...

Tom Weiss 25 hours 45 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Harry Collingwood - For Treasure Bound

For Treasure Bound is one of the earlier novels by Harry Collingwood (William Joseph Cosens Lancaster), published in 1897. We follow the hero, whose name is incidentally also Harry Collingwood, on a quest to the...

Adrian Wheal and 5 more 10 hours 14 minutes

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