War & Military
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Ernest Protheroe - Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested,...
2 hours 47 minutes
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Charles Dickens - Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 3)
Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens's third novel following on from Pickwick Papers and Oliver twist. It has a cast of wonderful characters that include Wackford Squeers, the reprehensible and villainous headmaster whose...
31 hours 36 minutes
Poetry
760
Conrad Aiken - Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (such as «1915: The Trenches») speak directly of war-time scenes and images, but...
2 hours 6 minutes
Literary Fiction
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José de Alencar - Iracema, the Honey-Lips: a Legend of Brazil
Iracema (translated as Iracema, the Honey Lips: a legend of Brazil) is considered one of the most important books of Brazilian romanticism, but also of Brazilian literature as a whole. It's been called a poem in...
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