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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Marble Faun

The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, Gothic novel, and...

grayeul and 5 more 16 hours 13 minutes

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

Fantastic Fiction

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Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly...

Chris Donnelly and 17 more 16 hours 43 minutes

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Letters

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Mary Wollstonecraft - Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty-five letters...

Rosie and 7 more 5 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2

This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty,...

Isabelle Brasme and 9 more 16 hours 48 minutes

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Short Stories

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Virginia Woolf - Monday or Tuesday

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf...

LizMourant 2 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

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G. K. Chesterton - Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses

This book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton, originally published in 1922, contain 35 poems on a variety of subjects. (Summary by Maria Therese)

matty_castaway and 18 more 1 hour 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 095

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of February and March 2011.

Penelope Greenwell and 20 more 1 hour 47 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 021

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, war, farming, slavery, education,...

Winston Tharp and 12 more 6 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Detective Fiction

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Ann Radcliffe - Italian

The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would not put up with their love. This novel is considered to be one of the best...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 18 hours 48 minutes

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General Fiction

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James Joyce - Ulysses (version 2)

Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting narrative styles. It was published in serial form between 1918-1920 and...

Brian and 16 more 31 hours 44 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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George Eliot - Romola

George Eliot's own favorite among her novels, this novel tells the story of Romola, the intelligent daughter of a blind scholar, who is falling in love with a man who is going to change her life and the politics of...

Sandra G and 15 more 23 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room

The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do...

Amanda and 5 more 6 hours 4 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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