Elizabeth Klett

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Emily Eden - Semi-Attached Couple

Young and beautiful Helen Eskdale and fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot seem to be the perfect match. But when they marry, they find that misunderstandings and jealousies continually drive them apart. The machinations...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 50 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Glimpses of the Moon

«The Glimpses of the Moon» (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an «open» relationship, but are...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 47 minutes

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Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

General Fiction

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Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kinetoscope technologies. These stories grew more and more popular as the public...

Scott Dawson and 14 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Memoirs

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Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 46 minutes

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Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

Poetry

497

Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox — fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches — and each volume will be a pot pourri of...

Carl Manchester and 12 more 7 hours 40 minutes Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection - 5 Volumes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

508

John A. Joyce - Shakspere: Personal Recollections

A fictitious account of a «friend» of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Letters

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Jane Austen - Letters of Jane Austen

This recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The letters are mostly addressed to Austen's...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

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E. Nesbit - House of Arden

This novel describes how Edred and Elfrida Arden and their Aunt Edith embark on a treasure hunt through time — for the famous Arden family treasure. With help from the magical creature Mouldiwarp, they find a whole...

Elizabeth Klett and 3 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ford Madox Ford - Fifth Queen

The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court (1906), Privy Seal (1907) and The Fifth...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 35 minutes

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Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Pádraic Colum - Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus,...

Elizabeth Klett and 8 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

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Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

490

William Morris - News From Nowhere

News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 24 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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