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Chronicles of Canada Volume 16 - The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant

Early Modern

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Louis Aubrey Wood - Chronicles of Canada Volume 16 - The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant

'Thayendanegea!' The name was taken from the great book of nature. It was a birth-name of the Mohawks meaning two sticks of wood bound together, a sign of strength; and the woman hoped that her tiny child might...

Esther and 5 more 2 hours 40 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Travel & Geography

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Richard Henry Dana, Jr. - Two Years Before the Mast

While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast . It is the story of a sailor's life from the forecastle, not a captain, nor a passenger, but a...

BethAnne and 1 more 17 hours 41 minutes

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Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War

War & Military Fiction

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Stephen Crane - Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War

There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task at hand. Living, dying, right or wrong, can be contemplated later. The spirit...

John W. Michaels 4 hours 46 minutes

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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2

*Non-fiction

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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2

This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 14 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1766 and...

Carol Stripling and 11 more 4 hours 32 minutes UK Parliamentary Speeches

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War & Military

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Arthur Guy Empey - Over the Top

Arthur Guy Empey was an American who responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by enlisting with the British Army to fight in France. His experiences in the trenches, including his ultimate wounding and...

Mark F. Smith 7 hours 5 minutes

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Plays

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Anton Chekhov - Seagull

The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It...

2 hours 7 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Superstition of Divorce

This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 years before...

Ray Clare 2 hours 36 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Mr. Midshipman Easy

One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of Jack Easy, a son of privilege who joins the Royal Navy. The work begins as a...

Adrian Praetzellis 16 hours 17 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Théodule-Armand Ribot - Essay on the Creative Imagination

«It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientific formulization. For a long time it has been the „spook science“...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours 33 minutes

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Erotica

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Giacomo Casanova - Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 2

Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats, intimidation, and...

ontheroad and 14 more 21 hours 8 minutes

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Essays

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John Donne - Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 8 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Poetry

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Valmiki - Ramayan, Book 1

The Ramayan(a) is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being...

Raju Venkateswaran and 6 more 6 hours 51 minutes Ramayan (Ramayana)

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