Arielle Lipshaw

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Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

General Fiction

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Jacob A. Riis - Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital...

Diana Majlinger and 7 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Christopher Wilson - Shakespeare and Music

Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries musicians and composers have also created musical adaptations based on...

Elizabeth Klett and 4 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Erotica

473

Marie Stopes - Married Love

«Married Love» is one of the most famous 'sex education' manuals. First published in 1918, it sold tens of thousands of copies, and was one of the first publications to openly discuss issues such as variations in male...

David Lawrence and 7 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Poetry

514

William Wordsworth - Microphone Showdown 2

This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to another project in which readers submitted readings of a poem on a...

TriciaG and 45 more 2 hours 35 minutes

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Plays

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Louisa May Alcott - Comic Tragedies

Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember the elaborate plays which the March sisters loved to perform. This volume, published after Alcott's death, is a compilation of the real plays written by her and...

Arielle Lipshaw and 2 more 4 hours 44 minutes

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Sarah Knowles Bolton - Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

This book is a collection of short biographies of notable women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Florence Nightingale, and many others. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw)

Stephanie Lee and 12 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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General Fiction

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James Joyce - Ulysses (version 2)

Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting narrative styles. It was published in serial form between 1918-1920 and...

Brian and 16 more 31 hours 44 minutes

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Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago

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Hannah Trager - Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago

Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish family in Jerusalem around 1876. In each chapter, Mr. Jacobs reads a letter from...

Arielle Lipshaw 1 hour 36 minutes

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Poetry

499

William Shakespeare - Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius,...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Martha Finley - Holidays at Roselands

This is the second book of the much loved Elsie Dinsmore series and starts where the first book left off. Elsie is still recuperating from her weakness, with her kind and indulgent father by her side. The story...

MelanieMae and 7 more 8 hours 52 minutes Elsie Dinsmore Series

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Jc Guan and 10 more 10 hours 29 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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General Fiction

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Olive

Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's 1850 novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deformed' from birth, Olive believes that she will never be able to marry like...

Arielle Lipshaw 14 hours 3 minutes

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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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