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Poetry

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Sarah Orne Jewett - Widow's House

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Widows' House by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 11, 2012. Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story...

Algy Pug and 11 more 26 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Charles Godfrey Leland - Legend of Heinz von Stein

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Legend of Heinz von Stein by Charles Godfrey Leland. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 11, 2012. Charles Godfrey Leland was an American humorist...

ashleighjane and 14 more 21 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Euripides - Alcestis

Alcestis is the earliest surviving play by Euripides. Alcestis, the devoted wife of King Admetus, has agreed to die in his place, and at the beginning of the play she is close to death. In the first scene, Apollo...

1 hour 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Joseph Rodman Drake - Culprit Fay and Other Poems

A collection, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, was published posthumously by his daughter in 1835. His best-known poems are the long title-poem of that collection and the patriotic «The American Flag» which was set as...

Oxenhandler and 6 more 1 hour 33 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3)

The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations. Such is the setting for the most horrific Sherlock Holmes story ever...

Lady Maria and 7 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Andrew Murray - Master's Indwelling

In all the writings of the late nineteenth century minister and writer Andrew Murray, we see his passion for reality in the lives of Christian believers. In this series of addresses he explains how, in various areas...

Christopher Smith 4 hours 34 minutes

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (version 4)

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes...

3 hours 5 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Mary Fortune - Stories from The Detective's Album

Mary Fortune is best known for The Detective's Album, the longest-running early detective serial anywhere in the world. Written under the name Waif Wander and narrated by detective Mark Sinclair, The Detective's Album...

Kirsty Leishman 9 hours 39 minutes

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Mathematics

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W. W. Rouse Ball - Short Account of the History of Mathematics

This is a history of mathematics from antiquity to the turn of the 20th century. (Summary by Paul King)

Paul E J King 19 hours 56 minutes

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General Fiction

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Frances Eleanor Trollope - Charming Fellow

A scathing criticism of social climbing underlies this unsettling story by Frances Eleanor Trollope, sister-in-law to Anthony and daughter-in-law to Frances Milton Trollope. Published in 1876, A Charming Fellow is a...

Angel5 15 hours 44 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Elsie Spicer Eells - Islands of Magic

LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. Their names are...

MaryAnn and 13 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 2)

This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who «Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 51 minutes

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