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Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life

Crime & Mystery Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life

This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried treasure! This is the tale of an ancient...

Esther 12 hours 11 minutes

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Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories

Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories

Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection shares but 6/7 of them. (Summary by Carolyn Frances )

Carolyn Frances 6 hours 53 minutes

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Historical Fiction

890

Joseph Conrad - Point of Honor

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 29 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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William Blake - First Book of Urizen

The Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English poet William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the...

Denny Sayers and 1 more 35 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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M. B. Synge - Book of Discovery

Telling the history of geographical discoveries, «Book of Discovery» is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of...

Kristine Bekere 16 hours 30 minutes

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Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2)

Detective Fiction

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Mark Twain - Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2)

It was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this novel is a detective story, in which a series of identities — the judge's...

John Greenman 5 hours 24 minutes

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe

War & Military

963

William Wood - Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe

Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a greater whole. But, since such treatment gives a totally false idea of his...

Esther and 3 more 2 hours 58 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 26 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Old Mother West Wind

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years....

Laurie Anne Walden 1 hour 39 minutes

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Poetry

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John Keats - O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell by John Keats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 11th, 2008.

Anne Cheng and 15 more 18 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Ambrose Bierce - Write it Right

Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives — entertaining, thought-provoking, occasionally outdated but so interesting to see how style and...

Laurie Anne Walden and 5 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

908

Israel Zangwill - Old Maids' Club

Mathematics vs. poetry: Brainy and beautiful 17-year-old Lillie, determined to never marry, begins an Old Maids' Club, while patient young Lord Silverdale advises, observes, and writes appropriate poetry. Candidates...

TriciaG 9 hours 30 minutes

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