Kristen McQuillin

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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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Romance

559

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate...

Tina Tilney and 19 more 16 hours 3 minutes

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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

702

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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Romance

539

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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Romance

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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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Children's Fiction

611

Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales

A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark...

Chris Vee and 31 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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*Non-fiction

556

Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested...

Alex Foster and 14 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

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Elizabeth E. Lea - Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic affairs. For, whilst receipt books for elegant preparations were often seen,...

Gesine and 13 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator. (Summary written by...

Eric Connover and 11 more 8 hours 16 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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Action & Adventure Fiction

638

Jules Verne - Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired...

Vinny Bove and 11 more 8 hours 10 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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