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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 021

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 021: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Justin Brett and 10 more 32 minutes

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John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in...

D.E. Wittkower 3 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Giambattista Basile - Stories from Pentamerone

This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stories as the basis of modern fairy tales. Be warned however, that these stories...

Joy Chan 7 hours 44 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Alan Edward Nourse - Star Surgeon

Dal Timgar had always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous adversity from classmates, professors, and some of the highest ranking...

Scott D. Farquhar 5 hours 25 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno

The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense...

Lucy Perry and 10 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy...

Gord Mackenzie 1 hour 21 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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The Gawain Poet - Gawayne and the Green Knight

Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight , a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance...

Betsie Bush 1 hour 32 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucretia P. Hale - Peterkin Papers

The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an...

entada 4 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Washington Square

Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict...

Dawn 7 hours 24 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Love Among the Chickens

Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls...

Mark Nelson 5 hours 56 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust I

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly...

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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard - First Battle of Bull Run

General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor, in April,...

Mark F. Smith 1 hour 42 minutes

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