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Literary Criticism

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George Borrow - Welsh And Their Literature

Originally an article in the US Edition of the London Quarterly Review, George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginning with the legendary origin of the Welsh people, then their major bards and...

Eric Metzler 1 hour 27 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Cratylus

Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have true names which can only be correctly applied to the object named and may have originated from God. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)

Geoffrey Edwards 2 hours 50 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Filippo De Filippi - Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska

Although Mount St. Elias had been known to native Americans for thousands of years and to Europeans since 1741 when Vitus Bering saw the peak and gave it its current name, it was not successfully climbed until 1897 by...

Phil Schempf 4 hours 56 minutes

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Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

Biography & Autobiography

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Charles Kingston - Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

The title and subtitle pretty much say it all. Twenty biographical sketches of people you would not want your son or daughter to marry. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 8 hours 48 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Eliza Crossing the River

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Eliza Crossing the River by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 27th, 2014. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American...

Amanda Vickery and 8 more 20 minutes

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History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

Romance

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Eliza Haywood - History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courrtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develop in the 19th century such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Rather than...

Michele Eaton 5 hours 41 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 184

This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2018.

Craig Campbell and 14 more 1 hour 37 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Westerns

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Max Brand - Garden of Eden

Ben Connor is a gambler who knows horses. He goes out west to get away from the gambling life he has been leading in New York. There he discovers a breed of grey horses that he thinks are the best horses he has ever...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 42 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Florence Roma Muir Wilson - If All These Young Men

Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, «If All These Young Men» is a character study of a group of young 20-something friends in England dealing with the looming, grey presence of the War in their...

Expatriate 6 hours 25 minutes

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His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

The last collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories contains some of the most dramatic moments of the entire Sherlock Holmes canon. «The Dying Detective» sees the great Holmes brought low by a fatal illness and...

Cori Samuel 6 hours 49 minutes

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Memoirs

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Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad (version 2)

Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain) journey to Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. Reportedly his best selling book.

bscottholmes 25 hours 14 minutes

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Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 3

Single Author Collections

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Marguerite of Navarre - Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 3

THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 3 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal...

Mary J and 4 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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