Elizabeth Klett

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Poetry

426

LibriVox's Most Wanted poetry collection

Have you ever suggested a book for recording by LibriVox only to be told by some good-for-nothing admin that it can't be done because it's not in the Public Domain in the US? Then this project is dedicated to you. It...

Kim Stich and 5 more 31 minutes

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Poetry

514

John Clare - Autumn

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Autumn by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 17th, 2010.

Aidan Brack and 13 more 15 minutes

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Health & Fitness

523

Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...

MorganScorpion and 11 more 24 hours 21 minutes The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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General Fiction

452

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Room in the Dragon Volant

J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom he glimpses...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 34 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

441

George Sylvester Viereck - House of the Vampire

The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a mysterious older master, who seems to have left a trail of ruined proteges in his...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 48 minutes

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General Fiction

421

Edith Wharton - Touchstone

Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain....

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

463

Nella Larsen - Passing

Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her second novel published in 1929, she examines the troubled friendship between...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 29 minutes

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Political Science

548

Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House

Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 10 hours 30 minutes

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General Fiction

464

Rebecca Harding Davis - Life in the Iron Mills

This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tells the story of Hugh Wolfe, a Welsh laborer in an iron mill who is also a...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 31 minutes

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Romance

465

Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence (version 2)

Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds...

Elizabeth Klett 9 hours 57 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

455

Henry Fielding - Journey from This World to the Next

The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny Sayers) This...

Denny Sayers and 1 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

487

Jane Austen - Jane Austen's Juvenilia

Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her...

Claudia Wilson and 6 more 5 hours 47 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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