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Letters

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Dorothy Osborne - Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne

A lively, interesting and important collection of 17th century love-letters written by an English lady, against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration [summary by hefyd] After refusing a long string...

Rhonda Federman and 7 more 6 hours 17 minutes

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Poetry

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Richard Henry Horne - Plough

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Plough by Richard Henry Horne, published in «The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900» in 1919. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September...

Anne Cheng and 7 more 9 minutes

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Antiquity

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Annals Vol 3

The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with...

Claude Banta and 6 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the «major phase» of James' career. The Golden Bowl...

Lee Ann Howlett 22 hours 5 minutes

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Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army

War & Military Fiction

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James Norman Hall - Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army

“Pvt Ryan”, “Platoon”, “A Soldier’s Home”, Kitchener’s Mob”. These aren’t happy stories, they are about the experience of War. War at different times, and although modern warfare may be more sanitized, the adventure,...

John W. Michaels 3 hours 58 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Selma Lagerlöf - Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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

Lars Rolander 17 hours 38 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Alan Edward Nourse - Short Science Fiction Collection 008

This volume of the LibriVox Science-Fiction Collection is devoted to Alan E. Nourse (1928-1992). Nourse became a science fiction writer to help pay for his medical education, but eventually retired from practicing...

Daniele and 8 more 4 hours 59 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Science Fiction

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H. Beam Piper - Uller Uprising

Uller Uprising is the story of a confrontation between a human overlord and alien servants, with an ironic twist at the end. Like most of Piper's best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human...

Ralph Snelson and 4 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Marcus Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of his Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life...

Landii and 8 more 18 hours 21 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Lancashire Witches

The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle...

Andy Minter 25 hours 14 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Green Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the...

Aubrey Anne and 19 more 12 hours 7 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Heroides

The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, not only for their interesting subject — letters by famous mythological...

Julie VW and 11 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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