Kara Shallenberg - Listen Audiobooks Online

Romance

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature — “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...

Chris Goringe and 12 more 13 hours 7 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 001

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.

Peter Yearsley and 17 more 1 hour 19 minutes

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Children's Fiction

572

Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - Our Island Story, Part 2

Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history;...

Kara Shallenberg and 1 more 7 hours 49 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - Our Island Story, Part 1

Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history;...

Kara Shallenberg 8 hours 6 minutes

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Poetry

536

William Shakespeare - Sonnet 023

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 10 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now,...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 16 more 20 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror —...

Kara Shallenberg and 17 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

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Sarah Orne Jewett - Country of the Pointed Firs

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because...

Betsie Bush and 8 more 4 hours 25 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

512

Joaquin Miller - Columbus

This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 8th, 2006.

Andrea L and 5 more 14 minutes

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House & Home

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Washington Irving - Old Christmas

A tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolmate, who invites him home to spend Christmas at the family estate....

Alex Foster and 3 more 1 hour 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

601

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Princess of Mars

Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandish society of ape-, tree- and lizardmen, red-, white-, yellowmen, brains on...

Stephan Möbius and 9 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Kristin LeMoine and 12 more 28 minutes

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