Graham Williams

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like many novels of the time, Vanity Fair was published as a serial before being...

Michelle Crandall and 19 more 33 hours 4 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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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice,...

Marlo Dianne and 6 more 17 hours 35 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 1

«The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse or Holinesse». The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works...

Graham Williams and 3 more 5 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

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Favourite Chapters Collection 002

A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderful clarity with which great ideas are expressed, and still others because...

Tim Makarios and 8 more 3 hours 24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Art and Heart

This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 38 different recordings of Art and Heart, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This poem,...

Alan Davis Drake and 37 more 1 hour 10 minutes

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Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell, one of the greatest seduction speeches of all time. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 23th,...

Alan Davis Drake and 10 more 31 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Song of Wandering Aengus

LibriVox volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus , by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 17 more 26 minutes

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias of Egypt

LibriVox volunteers bring you sixteen different recordings of Ozymandias of Egypt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 20th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 15 more 21 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now,...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 16 more 20 minutes

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Poetry

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John Donne - Death Be Not Proud

This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remember military men and women who had lost their lives in war. Kings and...

Andrew Miller and 10 more 16 minutes

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Robert Frost - Fire and Ice

LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice , by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 27th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 22 more 15 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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