Elizabeth Klett

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 014

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 014: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Tim Bulkeley and 7 more 3 hours 7 minutes Short Story Collections

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Comedy

468

Jesse Lynch Williams - Why Marry?

Why Marry? is a comedy, which «tells the truth about marriage». We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 7 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

596

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Princess

The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. The poem tells the story of an heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 59 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Sanctuary (version 2)

Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a terrible secret. — Summary by Elizabeth Klett

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

473

Mary Cowden Clarke - Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice to Lady Macbeth. In her revision of...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 50 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

443

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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Rebecca West - Return of the Soldier

In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 47 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

552

Aphra Behn - Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave

Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Perhaps based partly on Behn's own...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 40 minutes

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Poetry

519

William Wordsworth - Microphone Showdown 2

This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to another project in which readers submitted readings of a poem on a...

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Children's Shakespeare

This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short stories or fairy tales suitable to keep the attention of child readers or...

Tim Ferreira and 7 more 2 hours 34 minutes

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Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection

Poetry

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Robert Browning - Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection

For this collection, LibriVox volunteers made their own selections from Robert Browning's poetry and prose to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth on 7th May 1812.

Keri Ford and 13 more 2 hours 33 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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