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Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Secretary...

Sibella Denton 28 hours 37 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Lucius Apuleius - Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass

The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the two novels of Roman Literature that we can still read; and the only one...

Leni and 10 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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General Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Great Impersonation

E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales are thrillers and espionage. The Great Impersonation was written following...

Tom Weiss 8 hours 7 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 005

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 005: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Joe Cooning and 11 more 2 hours 28 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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General Fiction

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Kate Chopin - Awakening (version 2)

Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 37 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. De Vere Stacpoole - Blue Lagoon

Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most popular work. Parents who may have seen the Hollywood film need not be...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 38 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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John Dos Passos - Three Soldiers

Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken,...

mb 14 hours 38 minutes

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Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge

Short Stories

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Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) fiction or non-fiction works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is HodgePodge: humor,...

Bellona Times and 12 more 1 hour 43 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Psychology

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Confessions, volumes 3 and 4

“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.” Here again is the youthful, hero-worshipping Jean-Jacques – displaying an emotional...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 23 minutes The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Inchbald - Simple Story

The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if...

MaryAnn and 11 more 11 hours 5 minutes

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General Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Shuttle

Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She all but loses contact with her family in America. Years later her younger...

tabithat 19 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Earle Ashley Walcott - Blindfolded

Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. Dudley answers the summons, only to find himself immediately wrapped in the...

Roger Melin 10 hours 57 minutes

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