Elizabeth Klett

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 077

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2009.

Rhonda Federman and 14 more 59 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 076

This is an open collection of poems for the month of February 2009.

Rhonda Federman and 15 more 1 hour 23 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (version 5)

Anne of Green Gables is about an orphan girl who is starving for a family to love her. Her big words and bright spirits take her through many toils, trials, and temptations. Her romantic schemes make it nearly to...

Robin and 10 more 9 hours 31 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 3)

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The sensible Elinor and the sensitive Marianne both fall for men whose...

Elizabeth Klett 10 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charlotte Brontë - Shirley

Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in...

Shirley Anderson and 20 more 23 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (version 2)

Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governess at the remote Thornfield Hall. She finds a kindred spirit in her employer,...

Elizabeth Klett 18 hours 36 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 26 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)

Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 28 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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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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Epistolary Fiction

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Fanny Burney - Evelina

In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her uncertain parentage. Through a series of harrowing and humorous events that...

Great Plains and 5 more 15 hours 53 minutes

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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (version 2)

Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 12 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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