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Published 1800 -1900

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George Eliot - Silas Marner

Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever...

rachelellen 6 hours 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Guy Wetmore Carryl - Fables for the Frivolous

One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of...

chriss the girl and 10 more 52 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Eve’s Diary

Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The following is an extract from Adam: “She is all...

Esther 38 minutes

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Euthyphro

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses...

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Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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D. H. Lawrence - Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 26 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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American Standard Version - Bible (ASV) 21: Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes (or The Preacher) is the twenty-first book of The Bible. The author of this book is unknown but is considered by many biblical scholars to be Solomon.The author describes how all endeavors in life are in...

40 minutes

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Poetry

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Fay Inchfawn - Early Spring

The Vernal Equinox signals the time when the winter’s cold mantle begins to succumb to the warming influences of the oncoming spring. Fay Inchfawn (nee Elizabeth Rebecca Ward) took the springtime of 1920 as her...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 9 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Bram Stoker - Dracula

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the...

Kara Shallenberg and 16 more 16 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz was the fourth of 14 Oz books written by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919). Published in 1908, while Baum was resident in Coronado, California, it is considered one of the “darker” of the Oz...

Judy Bieber 4 hours 15 minutes

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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

Medieval

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René Descartes - Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could...

Stefan Schmelz and 5 more 2 hours 29 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Robert C. Benchley - Love Conquers All

Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, was a writer, humorist and actor of note during the 1920s through the early 1940s. Born in Massachusetts, he spent his early literary career in New York City as an editor, critic and...

Ted Delorme 6 hours 53 minutes

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Poetry

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Long Poems Collection 002

Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 002: a collection of 7 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Alan Davis Drake and 5 more 1 hour 10 minutes

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