Gord Mackenzie

23 books

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Bram Stoker - Dracula

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the...

Kara Shallenberg and 16 more 16 hours 31 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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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 10 more 2 hours 44 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 023

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 10 minutes

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Poetry

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if...

Greg and 5 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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Poetry

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John McCrae - In Flanders Fields

Librivox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Field , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Gord Mackenzie and 6 more 8 minutes

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Poetry

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Walt Whitman - Noiseless Patient Spider

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Call of the Wild

In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a trainer of sled dogs in Alaska. He adapts to the brutal conditions and is...

Gord Mackenzie and 3 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Henry James - International Episode

Two men visting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, miscommunication and cultural faux pas abound in this short but delightful novel....

Alex Foster and 5 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Literary Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers , as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of...

Kristin LeMoine and 49 more 55 hours 18 minutes

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New

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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