Jim Locke

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

492

Henry James - Outcry

The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy American art collector who is bent on buying up treasured masterpieces from the Old...

Linda Johnson and 1 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Family Life

419

Rosa Campbell Praed - Policy and Passion

«Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life» tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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Poetry

440

William Morris - Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

This is a volume of early narrative poems by William Morris, first published in 1858. While at the time of writing the most important stages of William Morris' career are still ahead of him, his ideas are already...

Peter Tucker and 4 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

449

Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...

Ulrike Denis and 21 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Antiquity

515

William Jennings Bryan - World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such...

Jason in Panama and 12 more 7 hours 8 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Epistolary Fiction

507

Eliza Fenwick - Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock

This is the story of Caroline and Sibella, two female friends. Strong and smart women who try to make it in a man's world while keeping their values and loyalties intact. The only way to do that is to hide a few...

April6090 and 8 more 11 hours 56 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

530

Caleb Bingham - Columbian Orator

The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolrooms in the first quarter of the 19th century to teach reading and speaking....

TheNeobro and 8 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

465

Elizabeth Ross Haynes - Unsung Heroes

This book consists of 17 biographies of remarkable men and women who, in 1921, were «unsung.» Some of them are now pretty well known while others are still, sadly, rather unrecognized. Written by Elizabeth Ross Haynes...

Jim Locke and 7 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Family Life

445

J. M. Barrie - Tommy and Grizel

This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a...

beyondutopia and 5 more 12 hours 59 minutes

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Religion

431

Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews, Volume 3

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 16 hours 35 minutes Legends of the Jews vol 1-4

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Action & Adventure

578

Clarence Young - Ned, Bob and Jerry at Boxwood Hall

The seventeenth book in the popular «Motor Boys» series sees our heroes as college freshman. Written under the house pseudonym of Clarence Young. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Christine Lehman and 6 more 5 hours 20 minutes

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Poetry

484

Edgar Allan Poe - Bells and Other Poems

This is a collection of the most famous poems by Edgar Allan Poe. It includes all of his most famous poems, such as the Bells and Annabel Lee, but also some minor and less well-known poems. Readers may wish to refer...

Sonia and 11 more 2 hours 12 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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