Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 2

This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

J. M. Smallheer and 26 more 12 hours 55 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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Published 1800 -1900

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Louisa May Alcott - Work: A Story of Experience

It is one of «several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work» The story depicts the struggles...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

Children's Fiction

569

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his...

Ted Kaouk and 16 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

Christianity - Biographies

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William Byron Forbush - Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 9 more 10 hours 29 minutes

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Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the...

Andy Yu and 12 more 7 hours 58 minutes

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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. These memos survive and continue to inspire others to this day. These writings...

Aegist and 7 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 11: 1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of...

Ernst Pattynama and 12 more 6 hours 10 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Essays

514

John Donne - Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 8 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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General

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Jacob Abbott - Mary Queen of Scots

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history,...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 7 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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King James Version

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV) NT 03: Luke

The Gospel of Luke is the most literary of the four gospels which recount the life and work of Jesus Christ. Although anonymous, the book is generally attributed to Luke, a physician and a missionary companion of the...

Susan Denney and 1 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Apology of Socrates

Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for «corrupting the youth» is a classic summation of his teacher's life and mission, centered in Socrates' most famous line, «The unexamined life is not worth...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit 1 hour 15 minutes

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09

Plays

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09

LibriVox readers present the ninth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest...

Raerity and 14 more 43 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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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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