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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Aspern Papers

One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, but now dead, American poet. His attempts to secure them from the poet’s former...

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 51 minutes

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Short Stories

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Émile Zola - Flood

A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in...

R. S. Steinberg 51 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Gissing - New Grub Street

«The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution,...

Bridget Gaige and 10 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

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Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room

The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do...

Amanda and 5 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 2

In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to pursue each other and become the talk of polite society, to the chagrin of...

willem and 10 more 5 hours 39 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Richard Jefferies - After London, or Wild England

Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of «post-apocalyptic fiction.» After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a...

Ruth Golding 10 hours 6 minutes

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Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Mary Esther Miller MacGregor - Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children

A collection of Arthurian tales retold for children. (Summary by Joy Chan)

Joy Chan 1 hour 53 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Offshore Pirate

This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball movie comedies of the 1930's in that it features a determined young heiress...

Bellona Times 1 hour 17 minutes

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General Fiction

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Upton Sinclair - Jungle

It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they...

Tom Weiss 16 hours 3 minutes

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Poetry

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Paul Laurence Dunbar - Life’s Tragedy

LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for June 21st, 2009.

Alana Jordan and 26 more 34 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013

A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history,...

Caroline Shapiro and 9 more 5 hours 11 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Bibles

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American Standard Version - Bible (ASV) 10: 2 Samuel

“The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh’muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism’s Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew, and the Book(s) of...

Sam Stinson 2 hours Bible (American Standard Version)

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