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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edward Lear - Owl and the Pussycat

Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871. Its most notable feature is the introduction of the...

Amy Boatman and 18 more 37 minutes

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Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Kristin LeMoine and 10 more 33 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Carlo Collodi - Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was published in serial form between 1881 and 1883, and then completed as a book...

Sherry Crowther and 18 more 4 hours 35 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are...

Gesine and 18 more 19 hours 23 minutes

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Poetry

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Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people...

Lokon and 43 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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George Edmundson - History of Holland

The title, «History of Holland,» given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province of Holland took in the War of Independence and throughout the whole of the subsequent...

Esther and 12 more 19 hours 44 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were originally published in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The title...

TBOL3 and 10 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Guy Wetmore Carryl - Fables for the Frivolous

One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of...

chriss the girl and 10 more 52 minutes

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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

Medieval

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René Descartes - Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could...

Stefan Schmelz and 5 more 2 hours 29 minutes

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Romance

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature — “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...

Chris Goringe and 12 more 13 hours 7 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror —...

Kara Shallenberg and 17 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Kristin LeMoine and 12 more 28 minutes

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