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Satire

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Francis Beaumont - Knight of the Burning Pestle

The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts, first performed in 1607. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to Don...

Rob Marland 2 hours 39 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers (version 3)

Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They intend to travel to places in England remote from London, and observe their...

Hamlet 29 hours 49 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 154

This is a collection of 35 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2016.

Shakira Searle and 17 more 1 hour 36 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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War & Military

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Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston - Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp during the First World War. The story, written by two of the escapees, describes...

Kevin Green 6 hours 51 minutes

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Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

Writing & Linguistics

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Joyce Kilmer - Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

This is a collection of 23 essays based on interviews conducted by Joyce Kilmer with some of the most famous authors of the time (1917). Kilmer's idea, as outlined in the Introduction, was that there is a deep divide...

BettyB and 10 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Poetry

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Edwin Arlington Robinson - Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems

This is a volume of later Poetry by the famous American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. — Summary by Carolin

John Burlinson and 4 more 2 hours

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Kingdom of Love

This is a volume of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, named after the poem 'the Kingdom of Love'. — Summary by Carolin

Michele Fry and 11 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 4

Biography & Autobiography

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Justin McCarthy - History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 4

In Volume IV of this series on the Hanoverian kings, Justin McCarthy and his son, Justin Huntly McCarthy, both Liberal Irish MPs., bring on the stage that bulky, big-spender, George IV, his bumbling brother, William...

Pamela Nagami 11 hours 39 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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Joseph Conrad - Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)

The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centres around the terrible consequences for their family when he is pressured into...

Cori Samuel 9 hours 50 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Maarten Maartens - God's fool

At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never really grows up. Years later, circumstances make him the richest man in town...

Anna Simon 14 hours 46 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ivan Turgenev - Torrents of Spring

The Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды), is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner...

tovarisch 6 hours 9 minutes

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Tragedy

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Aeschylus - Agamemnon (Browning Translation)

The play Agamemnon details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of...

Expatriate 1 hour 44 minutes Oresteia

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