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Nature

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Gilbert White - Natural History of Selborne

The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of his life in the village. The book is in the form of a collection of letters...

Peter Yearsley 9 hours 14 minutes

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Romance

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Kate Chopin - Awakening

Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons,...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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E. Nesbit - Railway Children

Edith Nesbit’s classic story, in which three children, pulled suddenly from their comfortable suburban life, move to the country with their mother, where they come to know and love the ways of the railways. (Summary...

Karen Savage 5 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Don Juan, Canto 1

Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventually) seventeen Cantos composed during Byron's self-imposed exile from England...

Peter Gallagher 1 hour 24 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature and identity, religion, Darwinism, and eugenics. When the novel was...

Alex Patterson and 12 more 4 hours 40 minutes

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Poetry

876

George Herbert - From The Temple

George Herbert was a country minister, and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In The Temple, Herbert combines these two aspects of his training in one of the greatest cycles of religious poetry ever...

Kirsten Ferreri 1 hour 23 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do...

Alex Patterson and 7 more 4 hours 38 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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G. K. Chesterton - Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz 6 hours

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Rafael Sabatini - Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set in the late 16th century, and concerns a Cornish sea-faring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by...

Denny Sayers and 1 more 14 hours 37 minutes

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Poetry

877

Walter Crane - Baby's Own Aesop

«Baby's Own Aesop» presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each «pictorially pointed» by Walter Crane, the noted painter and illustrator. He apprenticed to master wood-engraver, William James Linton, who...

Denny Sayers 42 minutes

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Poetry

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Carl Sandburg - Cornhuskers

Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.

Betsie Bush 2 hours 20 minutes

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Poetry

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John Milton - Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully...

Owen and 11 more 9 hours 41 minutes

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