Hugh McGuire

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Science Fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator. (Summary written by...

Eric Connover and 11 more 8 hours 16 minutes

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Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

Essays & Short Works

464

Thomas de Quincey - Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his hero, Samuel Coleridge, much to Wordsworth’s dismay). However, de Quincey’s...

Richard Grove and 6 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

620

Jules Verne - Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired...

Vinny Bove and 11 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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*Non-fiction

616

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacked...

Hugh McGuire and 8 more 8 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

533

LibriVox volunteers - Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month . The twist is that there are up to 30 people writing together, instead of one toiling alone....

Juho Fröjd and 18 more 7 hours 37 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of «buccaneers and buried gold.» Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a...

Mark Bradford and 12 more 7 hours 29 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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James Joyce - Dubliners

Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)

Richard Wallis and 9 more 6 hours 57 minutes

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*Non-fiction

483

William James - Essays in Radical Empiricism

William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and...

Carl Manchester and 7 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince

ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532,...

Chip and 6 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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David Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism...

Carl Manchester and 10 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Joseph Devlin - How to Speak and Write Correctly

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not «properly») create sentences, use figures of speech, write letters, and more, all while choosing the right words and doing it with...

Andrew Lebrun and 10 more 5 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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E. Nesbit - Five Children and It

This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 5 hours 38 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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