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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 07: 1810-1811

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

eva and 4 more 2 hours 38 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1

Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of Clarissa, is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent years and is now eager to become part of the aristocracy by acquiring...

Bob Gilham and 5 more 12 hours 14 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Modern

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John Stuart Mill - Subjection of Women

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favor of equality between the sexes. It offers both...

Andy and 8 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

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Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its...

Kristine Bekere and 10 more 32 hours 42 minutes

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

*Non-fiction

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Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: «National Delusions», «Peculiar Follies», and «Philosophical Delusions». The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics...

J. M. Smallheer and 12 more 14 hours 19 minutes

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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

Biography & Autobiography

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of...

Graham Redman and 5 more 8 hours 43 minutes Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

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Humorous Fiction

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Scott Hemphill - First Fifty Digits of Pi

56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string of numbers: each reader presents just the first 50 digits in...

Jonathan Horniblow and 18 more 52 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Henri Poincaré - Science and Hypothesis

Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental...

Carl Manchester and 9 more 7 hours 2 minutes

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South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-12

Exploration

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Roald Amundsen - South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-12

In contrast to Scott's South Pole expedition, Amundsen's expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally different primary task (Amundsen did no surveying on his route south and is...

Beecher and 18 more 19 hours 46 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Max Stirner - Ego and His Own

In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of both «establishment» ideologies and of revolutionaries in favor of an extreme...

Mat Messerschmidt and 5 more 18 hours 26 minutes

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Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

Law

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William Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. The...

Jc Guan and 5 more 17 hours 54 minutes

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Epics

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Virgil - Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s...

Justin Brett and 9 more 13 hours 39 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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