Jim Locke

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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

Psychology

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Sigmund Freud - Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

In this little book Freud discusses three areas of human sexuality: 1. Sexual pervisons or abberations. In this essay, Freud concludes that «a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of...

Jim Locke and 2 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Henry James - Other House

A dramatic tale of passion and unrequited love, involving a deathbed promise, murder and a cover-up, all of which takes place in a tight-knit community of people. — Summary by (shih-ping)

KirkL and 3 more 7 hours 34 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Henri Barbusse - Under Fire: The Story of a Squad

An English translation of the French World War I novel «Le Feu», written by a French soldier and dedicated to «the memory of the comrades who fell by my side at Crony and on Hill 119.» Barbusse was invalided out of...

Beth Thomas and 8 more 12 hours 19 minutes

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History

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Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 4

The fourth and final volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume discusses how the Inquisition dealt with mysticism, solicitation of illicit relationships, bigamy, theological propositions,...

Larry Wilson and 14 more 25 hours 46 minutes

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Poetry

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Charles Kingsley - Andromeda, and Other Poems

This is a collection of the most famous poems of Charles Kingsley. Kingsley was an extremely versatile man, Wikipedia lists him as «broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social...

Jim Locke and 7 more 3 hours 40 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Henry James - Confidence

This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements...

Judi Mason and 4 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Elijah Kellogg - Lion Ben of Elm Island

An adventure story for boys, in which the author aims to «impart pleasure, and, at the same time, inspire respect for labor, integrity and every noble sentiment». There is a sense of nostalgia, as Kellogg sets his...

A LibriVox Volunteer and 9 more 5 hours 24 minutes

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Family Life

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Lodore

The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic name must be kept. Even more so when lord Lodore dies. His wife and daughter...

Jim Locke and 3 more 17 hours 1 minute

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Essays & Short Works

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Isaac D'Israeli - Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts of things which, in the opinion of Mr. Disraeli, a writer or a reader can do...

Jim Locke and 23 more 24 hours 2 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Maurice Henry Hewlett - Lore of Proserpine

If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it,...

Chris A. Hawkins and 2 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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School

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Talbot Baines Reed - Cock-House at Fellsgarth

A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Rough Justice

Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were there any blood motives? Detective John Thorne would have to discover. Inspired...

Marina and 3 more 10 hours 31 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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