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Political Science

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Carl von Clausewitz - On War (Volume 1)

A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing statements and then draws them together to describe many facets of war....

Timothy Ferguson 10 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with — and sometimes against — each other on Blithedale, a communal farm antecedent to those that sprang up later in the 1960s, and similar to...

Jacquerie 8 hours 48 minutes

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Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume I

Memoirs

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Horatio Nelson - Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume I

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won...

Daniel Watkins and 5 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir...

Edward W. LaBonte and 7 more 8 hours 34 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Hilaire Belloc - French Revolution

“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the...

Ray Clare 6 hours 59 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hans Aanrud - Lisbeth Longfrock or Sidsel Sidsærkin

Lisbeth Longfrock — (Sidsel Sidsærkin in its original Norwegian) was seen by the author as a book written for adults, telling the story of a young girl growing up in a farming district in a steep-sided Norwegian...

Annise 3 hours 28 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2

Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood, Sgt. Troy and Fanny Robin. The plot involves love, loyalty, death and...

Tadhg 14 hours 10 minutes

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Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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A. A. Milne - Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying...

5 hours 23 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 15: 1812-1813

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

renee.houle and 8 more 2 hours 30 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Bibles

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV) 06: Joshua

The history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to the death of Joshua. (Summary by Joy Chan)

Joy Chan 1 hour 54 minutes Bible (King James Version)

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General Fiction

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Guy de Maupassant - Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel

“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him — a power so irresistible that all women yielded to it.” Though firmly set in 1880s Paris, Maupassant's gripping story of...

Martin Geeson 8 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

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Roswell Field - Romance of an Old Fool

A light-hearted account of a successful middle aged widower who chances to visit the small town in which he grew up to renew old acquaintances and perhaps reflect on his successes since his departure. This visit,...

Roger Melin 2 hours 58 minutes

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