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William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It concerns the fate of two very young lovers who would do anything to be...

Becky Miller 3 hours 2 minutes

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Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the island, providing shelter, food, and clothing for himself from the few...

Denny Sayers 3 hours 41 minutes

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Aristotle - Poetics

Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek tragedy, comedy and epic...

Robert Foster 2 hours 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mary Everest Boole - Philosophy and Fun of Algebra

Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was born Mary Everest in England and spent her early years in France. She married mathematician George Boole. She was the author of several works on teaching and teaching mathematics in...

Patricia Oakley 1 hour 41 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - Our Island Story, Part 2

Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history;...

Kara Shallenberg and 1 more 7 hours 49 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - Our Island Story, Part 1

Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history;...

Kara Shallenberg 8 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The...

Esther and 7 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 10 more 2 hours 44 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if...

Greg and 5 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror —...

Kara Shallenberg and 17 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Poetry

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Robert Frost - North of Boston

One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914. (Summary written by Gesine) Contents (with beginning time): Part 1 Mending Wall (00:01:20) The Death of the Hired Man...

Brad Bush 1 hour 46 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, through her college years. She writes the...

Betsie Bush and 2 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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