Christine Blachford

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Poetry

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Alice Meynell - Thrush Before Dawn

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of A Thrush Before Dawn by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 8th, 2008.

Christine Blachford and 11 more 21 minutes

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Poetry

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Sophie Jewett - Armistice

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Armistice by Sophie Jewett. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 1st, 2008.

Anthony Wilson and 15 more 18 minutes

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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1

*Non-fiction

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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1

This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including Oliver Cromwell, Edmund...

David Federman and 8 more 5 hours 11 minutes UK Parliamentary Speeches

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

718

Anthony Trollope - Eustace Diamonds

Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest...

Laura Koskinen and 19 more 27 hours 31 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

556

Unknown - String of Pearls

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String of Pearls” in...

musil and 13 more 11 hours 41 minutes

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Detective Fiction

512

George Barr McCutcheon - Graustark

The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, and its sequels. They were popular best-sellers at the time they were...

Maire Rhode and 4 more 10 hours 29 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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Published 1800 -1900

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Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey

The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in...

Melissa and 6 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Fanny Burney - Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives...

Nikki Sullivan and 24 more 35 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Wings of the Dove

«The Wings of the Dove,» published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 20 hours 11 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Harold MacGrath - Drums of Jeopardy

The Drums of Jeopardy is a 1920 American novel by Harold MacGrath. The story was serialized by the The Saturday Evening Post beginning in January of 1920. In 1922 the book was made into a Broadway play and the...

Mark Nelson and 8 more 9 hours 53 minutes

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Animals

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Mrs. Isabella Beeton - Book of Household Management

«Mrs. Beeton's» is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate bestseller, running to millions of copies within just a few years. In the cookery...

Sarah Jennings and 32 more 58 hours 15 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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