Martin Geeson

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Laurence Sterne - Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

After the bizarre textual antics of «Tristram Shandy», this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 59 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018

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 law, history, science, travel, philosophy,...

Bellona Times and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.” What comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Samuel Johnson - Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the Happy Valley in search of that triad of eighteenth-century aspiration — life,...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 30 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017

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, science, cooking, economics,...

Piper Hayes and 9 more 5 hours 30 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Psychology

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Confessions, volumes 3 and 4

“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.” Here again is the youthful, hero-worshipping Jean-Jacques – displaying an emotional...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 23 minutes The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Biography & Autobiography

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Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!” Though apparently presenting the reader with a collage of poignant memories, temporal digressions and random anecdotes, the Confessions is a...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 21 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known...

JuliaY and 9 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Zastrozzi, A Romance

“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!” From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defiance of the villain’s departure “with a wild convulsive laugh of exulting...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 15 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

General Fiction

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759,...

Martin Geeson and 3 more 5 hours 15 minutes

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Psychology

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Confessions, volumes 1 and 2

“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.” Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most remarkable and courageous works of introspection ever undertaken. Some...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 10 minutes The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 022

A collection of nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, science, women's...

Daniel Christopher June and 14 more 5 hours 7 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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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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