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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Marie of Romania Alexandra Victoria - Dreamer of Dreams

Eric, artist for the king, has created a marvelous painting of a royal wedding. It is finished except for the face of the queen, which appeared to him in a dream. When he awoke, he had forgotten the form of the...

iloveyu and 11 more 5 hours 49 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plotinus - Enneads

The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) into fifty-four books with each Ennead containing nine. The...

Geoffrey Edwards 54 hours 15 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 2, September 1899

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

NoelBadrian and 8 more 2 hours 35 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Science Fiction

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Randall Garrett - His Master's Voice

This is a follow up story to Randal Garrett's original story, A Spaceship Named McGyer. The intrepid protagonist, now that he has become the completely unintended and unwilling master of the robot spaceship McGyer, is...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 57 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Logan Pearsall Smith - Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This recording is of two of his collections of these bon mots. For example: “These...

David Wales 3 hours 31 minutes

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Poetry

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Poetic Trios

We selected some of our favourite poets for this collection, including Dante, Fitzgerald, Keats, Barrett Browning, Lear, Carroll, Milton, Morris, Swinburne and Rossetti. We hope you enjoy listening to them. — Summary...

4 hours 46 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Washington Irving - Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey

Although this book may not have the immediately recognizable title of, say, “Rip Van Winkle” or “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this book deserves its place among the pantheon of Washington Irving’s classics. Irving, who...

Greg Giordano 5 hours 38 minutes

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World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

Anthologies

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World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence;...

Gaby and 3 more 6 hours 5 minutes World's Best Poetry

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Maurice Henry Hewlett - Lore of Proserpine

If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it,...

Chris A. Hawkins and 2 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

Literary Fiction

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by «Q», the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. — Summary by Amy Gramour

Andrew Dougherty and 10 more 4 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Poison Island

Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds “a poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paint”....

Daniel Goodson and 10 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Martha Finley - Elsie's New Relations

In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative turns from Elsie to Violet's family, particularly her step-children Max and...

Lily Marie and 7 more 6 hours 26 minutes Elsie Dinsmore Series

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