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General Fiction

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Benjamin Disraeli - Henrietta Temple

The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage to diminish....

Linda Andrus and 18 more 17 hours 31 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Peter Kropotkin - Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but also about 19th century Russian society and politics. He was born into the...

Elin 7 hours 31 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edgar Wallace - Green Rust (Version 2)

Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill...

Kirsten Wever 9 hours 50 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Henry Edward Manning - Love of Jesus to Penitents

Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) was an Oxford-educated Anglican clergyman who converted to Roman Catholicism after the Privy Council ordered the Church of England in 1850 to reinstate an heretical vicar. Manning was...

dave7 2 hours 44 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ernest Poole - His Family

The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile, electricity, lighting, radio, telephone and cinema. Our present time of...

James E. Carson 10 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

871

Max Brand - Gunman's Reckoning

A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 45 minutes

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Bibles

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Wycliffe Bible - Bible (Wycliffe) 21: Ecclesiastes

“… an alemaunde tre schal floure, a locuste schal be maad fat, and capparis schal be distried; for a man schal go in to the hous of his euerlastyngnesse...” — Eccl. xii, 5 (see Note below). Traditionally composed...

Martin Geeson 59 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs

This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian. The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from...

Maria Therese 13 hours 29 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

873

Selma Lagerlöf - Emperor of Portugallia

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Emperor of...

Lars Rolander 7 hours 10 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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M. E. Francis - In a North Country Village

M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant...

Phil Benson 5 hours

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Orlando Gibbons - Silver Swan

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2011. Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the...

Agnes Maddock and 17 more 16 minutes

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General Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Father Sergius

Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath it, Father Sergius struggles to find peace and, if not happiness, then at least...

James E. Carson 1 hour 55 minutes

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