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Thomas Paine - Common Sense (version 2)

Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously published on January 10, 1776; signed «Written by an...

Bob Neufeld 2 hours 25 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (version 3)

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th...

Bob Neufeld 2 hours 17 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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George Bernard Shaw - Don Juan In Hell

Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2) from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman . It is often performed as a stand-alone play. In it, three characters from Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Don Juan, Dona Ana, and...

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General Fiction

Herman Melville - Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's...

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General Fiction

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Guy de Maupassant - Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat - version 2)

Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War,...

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Washington Irving - Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Version 2)

«The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in...

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General Fiction

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Cloak

«The Cloak» is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor...

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Apology

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of «corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the...

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War & Military

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Sun Tzu 孙武 - Art of War (Version 4)

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each devoted to one aspect of warfare. It...

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

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Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

ivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments...

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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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