Jan Moorehouse

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Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Political Science

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Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

This book is a compilation of scholarly lectures by distinguished experts delivered at Cambridge in August 1916. The titles of the lectures reveal the contents of each presentation and include the following: The war...

Jan Moorehouse 6 hours 22 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Meriel Buchanan - Recollections of Imperial Russia

In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there. She was the daughter of the man who turned out to be the last British...

Jan Moorehouse 8 hours 18 minutes

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Music

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Lawrence Gilman - Stories of Symphonic Music

'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for scathing reviews of compositions later to become classics. Here he analyzes the...

Lynne T and 13 more 10 hours 16 minutes

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Humor

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Kate Sanborn - Wit of Women

It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting. While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now threadbare, the wit of women has been almost utterly ignored and...

Joseph Tabler and 9 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Autobiography of Goethe Volume 2

A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows...

Craig Campbell and 4 more 8 hours 41 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Edith Wharton - House of Mirth (Version 3)

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love. She sabotages all her possible opportunities for a...

Jan Moorehouse 12 hours 55 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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August Strindberg - Growth of a Soul

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright who has had many of his works read into Librivox by volunteers. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition...

Jan Moorehouse and 2 more 6 hours 51 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 024

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....

Chiquito Crasto and 8 more 7 hours 43 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Literary Fiction

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Idiot (Part 03 and 04)

The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society....

Alia Makki and 1 more 11 hours 34 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Homer - Iliad (Pope Translation)

Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets...

Steven R. Perkins and 1 more 19 hours 11 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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