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Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Young Carthaginian

Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 11 hours 40 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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A. A. Milne - Happy Days

Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual,...

Phil Chenevert and 17 more 8 hours 15 minutes

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Christianity - Commentary

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St. John Chrysostom - Sermon on the Mount - Commentary

Saint John Chrysostom's Homilies 15-25, on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, expound upon Matthew Chapters 5-7, known as The Sermon on the Mount, containing perhaps the most well-known teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ....

A LibriVox Volunteer 8 hours 23 minutes

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Anthologies

997

Mary Elizabeth Hawker - Old Hampshire Vignettes

Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 — 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She lived most of her life in the Hampshire Valley, the source of these verbal...

David Wales 2 hours 12 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

759

Wyndham Martyn - Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes successful crime fiction stories, but this doesn't pay enough for him to do...

Anna Simon 8 hours 21 minutes

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Plays

811

Edward Sheldon - Boss

The Boss centers on the relationship between Michael Regan, an Irish-American businessman, and Emily Griswold, an outspoken American girl bent on saving her father's business. Set during a time when unions fought for...

2 hours 40 minutes

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Travel & Geography

775

Marie Stopes - Journal from Japan

Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth control, and women’s rights. As a scientist, she was a renowned...

Expatriate 7 hours 58 minutes

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Middle Ages/Middle History

848

Agnes Strickland - Lives of the Queens of England Volume 5

The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England...

Ann Boulais 14 hours 55 minutes Lives of the Queens of England

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing (version 2)

Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics. Much Ado About...

2 hours 32 minutes

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Anthologies

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Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology

This volume...aims to present the lyrical poetry of Russian for the last hundred years by a selection of poems translated by the editors...The principle of selection was, so far as might be, aesthetic. Poems were...

Kevin W. Davidson 3 hours 5 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

886

E. Phillips Oppenheim - Yellow House

Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that will change everything they thought to be real in their lives. (Summary by...

Sharon Kilmer 7 hours 19 minutes

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Science Fiction

962

Robert E. Howard - Witch Shall Be Born

The kingdom of Khauran is admittedly a small one, nestled between the vast desert and the plains, but it is blessed with an abundance of rich soil, hard working devoted inhabitants and much gold but most of all by a...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 5 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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