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Business & Economics

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Thorstein Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class

Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the Theory of the Leisure Class is considered one of the great works of...

Anna Simon and 12 more 11 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

810

Meredith Nicholson - House of a Thousand Candles

A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa for the reading...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 28 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the...

Andy Yu and 12 more 7 hours 58 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Leigh Hunt - Fish Answers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Fish Answers by James Leigh Hunt. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 26th, 2008.

Ancilla and 7 more 10 minutes

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Medieval

794

Desiderius Erasmus - Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is a satirical essay written in 1509 by Desiderius...

Anna Simon 3 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Goddard - Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading)

The Perils of Pauline is one of the first damsel in distress serials. The story is complete with undaunted hero, courageous damsel, unscrupulous villains galore, and other worldly interest. Before getting married,...

9 hours 5 minutes

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General

881

Jacob Abbott - Queen Elizabeth

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history,...

Kara Shallenberg and 5 more 4 hours 54 minutes

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Political Science

1.8K

George Washington Plunkitt - Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

«I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.», George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There's good graft and bad graft according to Plunkitt. Listen to this candid discourse from a 19th century politician, and...

John W. Michaels 3 hours

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Romance

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Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree

This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School . The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at the local church and we follow the fortunes of one member, Dick...

Rachel Lintern 6 hours 45 minutes

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Children's Fiction

954

Carey Rockwell - Stand by for Mars

Tom Corbett — Space Cadet was one of the first multimedia sensations. In the 1950s the character had his own radio show, TV series, comic book, breakfast cereal, and a line of young-adult novels. A cross between «Tom...

Sean O'Hara and 1 more 5 hours 4 minutes

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Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses

Animals

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P. R. Kincaid - Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses

Back in the day before automobiles, a good horse trainer and veterinarian was the equivalent of “Mr Goodwrench”. A badly behaving or unhealthy equine was equivalent to breaking down on the highway or running out of...

John W. Michaels 1 hour 44 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Warner Van Lorne - Wanted - 7 Fearless Engineers!

A great civilization's fate lay in Dick Barrow's hands as he led his courageous fellow engineers into a strange and unknown land. None of them knew what lay ahead--what dangers awaited them--or what rewards. But they...

2 hours 3 minutes

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