Martin Geeson

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Poetry

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Lines

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 13th, 2009.

Christian Clark and 13 more 20 minutes

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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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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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General Fiction

601

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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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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Romance

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Honoré de Balzac - Girl with the Golden Eyes

Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante — but...

Martin Geeson 4 hours 30 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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Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

General Fiction

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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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War & Military Fiction

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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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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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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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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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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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