Martin Geeson

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Justus Hecker - Dancing Mania

Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social phenomenon. One of the most prominent theories is that victims suffered from...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 5 minutes

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Plays

402

William Congreve - Way of the World

The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as being one of the best Restoration comedies...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 4 minutes

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Romance

490

Ivan Turgenev - First Love

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The «boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her» story is universal but not, I think, banal — despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 3 minutes

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Christianity - Other

428

Saint Benedict of Nursia - Rule of St. Benedict

Quote: The Rule of Saint Benedict (Regula Benedicti) is a book of precepts written by St. Benedict of Nursia for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot. Since about the 7th century it has also been...

Phil Chenevert and 5 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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General Fiction

600

John Milton - Samson Agonistes

“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time,...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 37 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Ivan Turgenev - Diary of a Superfluous Man

Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype — the «superfluous man», a sort of Hamlet not necessarily dignified with the title Prince: an individual of comfortable means...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 37 minutes

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Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)

Memoirs

433

Pierre Abélard - Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)

Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 34 minutes

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Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection

Poetry

515

Robert Browning - Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection

For this collection, LibriVox volunteers made their own selections from Robert Browning's poetry and prose to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth on 7th May 1812.

Keri Ford and 13 more 2 hours 33 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

518

Honoré de Balzac - Farewell

In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 28 minutes

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Tragedy

517

Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1

Tamburlaine the Great is the name of a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur 'the lame'. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

465

G. K. Chesterton - Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton

This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in «The Defandant», «Varied Types» and «Tremendous Trifles». These 12 pieces were chosen to...

TriciaG and 7 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius,...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 2 hours 9 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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