Grant Hurlock

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Frank Gelett Burgess - Find the Woman

Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, into strange houses and through side streets at midnight, a shuttle in the...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 28 minutes

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*Non-fiction

423

Night Side of New York

This nonfiction collection of sketches, by «members of the New York press,» takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after dark, with stops along the way to vividly depict scenes ranging from the splendid to...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

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Dorothy Richardson - Pointed Roofs

Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer ) termed «nous autres,» i.e., young gentlewomen who must venture forth and earn their living after their fathers...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 20 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

428

Maria Gowen Brooks - Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri

Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the 19th century to Byron and Swinburne. In it she tells the story of an...

Grant Hurlock 6 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

481

Irvin S. Cobb - J. Poindexter, Colored

This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Priest, while the judge is vacationing abroad. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)

Grant Hurlock 5 hours 55 minutes

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General Fiction

521

Grant Allen - Type-Writer Girl

(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner) «There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young lady, crushed between classes above and below, and left with scarce a chance of...

Grant Hurlock 5 hours 38 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

570

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known...

JuliaY and 9 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3

Published before 1800

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3

This is volume 3 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759,...

Ruth Golding and 7 more 5 hours 13 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

412

Mason Long - Save the Girls

Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evil of prostitution by presenting a series of pathetic portraits of young...

Grant Hurlock 4 hours 43 minutes

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Erotica

476

Marie Stopes - Married Love

«Married Love» is one of the most famous 'sex education' manuals. First published in 1918, it sold tens of thousands of copies, and was one of the first publications to openly discuss issues such as variations in male...

David Lawrence and 7 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

426

George Gascoigne - Adventures of Master F.J.

This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married woman named Elinor, lady of the castle he is visiting in Scotland. Events in...

Grant Hurlock 3 hours 38 minutes

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Poetry

520

Short Poetry Collection 121

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2013.

Winston Tharp and 11 more 1 hour 52 minutes Short Poetry 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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