Kristen McQuillin

31 books

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York «Society», who spent much of her life in France. In this novel she tells the story of Undine Sprague, the thrice- (or more) married, upwardly...

Isosceles and 10 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Romance

538

E. M. Forster - Howards End (version 2)

The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth's most prized personal...

Lucy Burgoyne and 12 more 12 hours 18 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Paul Allardyce - Stops, or How to Punctuate

Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the English vocabulary is continually evolving, the system of punctuation has...

Kristen McQuillin and 1 more 2 hours

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Historical Fiction

541

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Rainer and 13 more 5 hours 31 minutes

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Romance

664

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gives her whole heart to every endeavor. When the Dashwoods — mother Mrs....

Michelle Crandall and 14 more 12 hours 11 minutes

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Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

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Rufus Estes - Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville restaurant at the age of 16, and in 1883 took up employment as a Pullman...

Dr. Pamela Russ and 11 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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Romance

586

Kate Chopin - Awakening

Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons,...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Constitution of the United States of America, 1787

*Non-fiction

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United States Government - Constitution of the United States of America, 1787

This 1787 document defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America.

Kristen McQuillin 28 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

743

James Joyce - Ulysses

NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places...

Hugh McGuire and 12 more 32 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of «buccaneers and buried gold.» Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a...

Mark Bradford and 12 more 7 hours 29 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House. The land is...

Brad Bush and 9 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Poetry

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Siegfried Sassoon - Road

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Siegfried Sassoon's The Road , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 13 minutes

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New

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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