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General Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Price of Love

Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with the woman for only a short time, she is taken into the heart of the family. She falls in love with one of Mrs Maldon's descendents, but...

Christine Blachford 9 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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E. Nesbit - Story of the Treasure Seekers

This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savage)

Karen Savage 4 hours 9 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial. Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils,...

Stephan Möbius and 23 more 17 hours 2 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Thomas à Kempis - Imitation of Christ

The Imitation of Christ is widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity. The life of Christ is presented as the highest study possible to a mortal, as Jesus’ teachings far excel all the...

David Barnes 8 hours 42 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays, First Series

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE....

Linda Leu and 6 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Mathematics

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Unknown - Prime Numbers

A recording of the first 2000 prime numbers (2-17389). Recommended listening for all math geeks and insomniacs!

1 hour 45 minutes

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Short Stories

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Lafcadio Hearn - Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have...

Vilayvanh and 4 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jane Austen - Lady Susan (version 2)

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as...

Brenda Dayne and 6 more 2 hours 42 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers

This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is...

Andy Minter and 9 more 22 hours 25 minutes

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Satire

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like many novels of the time, Vanity Fair was published as a serial before being...

Michelle Crandall and 19 more 33 hours 4 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the...

Denny Sayers and 11 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned at an infant he is found by the nymph...

Kristin LeMoine 3 hours 27 minutes

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