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Homer - Iliad (Pope Translation)

Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets...

Steven R. Perkins and 1 more 19 hours 11 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Edmund Spenser - Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely...

Leonard Wilson 1 hour 51 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Laura Lee Hope - Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue

This book follows the adventures of Bunny Brown, a 6-year old lively little boy, and his Sister Sue, a happy 5-year old little girl. You will enjoy learning of their adorable antics and delightful chatter. The Bunny...

Abigail Rasmussen 4 hours 21 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Grace Isabel Colbron - Case of the Golden Bullet

Joseph Muller, quiet mannered detective, tries to solve the mystery of a man who died in his study, by a bullet hole in the chest. But all windows and doors were locked, from the inside. (summary by Dawn Larsen)

Dawn Larsen 1 hour 34 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Oscar Wilde - De Profundis (version 2)

This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and charts his spiritual development. (summary by AdamH) NOTE: .«Transcribed from...

AdamH 1 hour 47 minutes

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Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Essays & Short Works

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William Hazlitt - Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt. The book contains some of Hazlitt's more famous essays...

Bob Gonzalez and 16 more 20 hours 30 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Myrtle Reed - At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern

This begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall...

Daryl Wor 7 hours 9 minutes

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Collected Translations

Poetry

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Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Collected Translations

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand,...

Amy Gramour 1 hour 49 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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John Ruskin - Seven Lamps of Architecture

The Seven Lamps of Architecture, published in May 1849, is an extended essay written by the English art critic and theorist John Ruskin. The 'lamps' of the title are Ruskin's principles of architecture, which he later...

Todd Ulbrich 8 hours 58 minutes

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Family Life

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Pansy - Little Fishers and Their Nets

Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and her family is in poverty and hopelessness because of it. Her stepmother has...

TriciaG 8 hours 43 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Wolf Hunters

Follow Roderick and his friends Wabi and Mukoki on their adventures in the pristine North. They fight voracious wolves, hostile natives, and the vicious elements of nature, while on the hunt. Getting more than they...

badey and 6 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

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Daniel Defoe - Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim . The novel concerns the...

Edmund Bloxam 16 hours 25 minutes

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