Kristen McQuillin

31 books

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Poetry

478

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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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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Science Fiction

524

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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Action & Adventure

628

E. Nesbit - Five Children and It

This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 5 hours 38 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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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

533

Robert Louis Stevenson - Cow

Librivox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Brad Bush and 13 more 9 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

546

P. G. Wodehouse - Psmith in the City

Mike’s dream of studying and playing cricket at Cambridge are thwarted as his father runs into financial difficulties. Instead, Mike takes on the job of clerk at the “New Asiatic Bank.” Luckily, school friend Psmith,...

Kristen McQuillin and 7 more 5 hours 51 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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Poetry

545

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)

641

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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House & Home

474

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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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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