Hugh McGuire

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius - Consolation of Philosophy

Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in...

Kirsten Ferreri and 16 more 5 hours 13 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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Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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LibriVox volunteers - Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Elizabeth the same woman, is she married with children, is her husband a spy?...

Alan Davis Drake and 11 more 4 hours 26 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Leo Tolstoy - Childhood

Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediate notice among...

Hugh McGuire and 7 more 4 hours 6 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Beatrix Potter - Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great...

Kara Shallenberg and 15 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

Political Science

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John Ruskin - Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Unto This Last is an important work of political economic though that...

Hugh McGuire and 3 more 3 hours 16 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard. In a series of ghostly visits, Scrooge visits his happy past, sees the difficulties of the present, views a bleak future, and in the end amends his mean...

Mark Bradford and 4 more 3 hours 14 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Typhoon

Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a...

Russ Maxwell and 5 more 3 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Bill Nye - Comic History of England

Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” Mowatt is a distinguished LibriVox volunteer, widely known for his continued...

Ezwa and 15 more 2 hours 54 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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Ancient

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Epictetus - Golden Sayings of Epictetus

Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.

Hugh McGuire and 5 more 2 hours 40 minutes

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Stephen Leacock - Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada

This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal people. These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a...

Aaron Breceda and 5 more 2 hours 14 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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