Michelle Crandall

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Epistolary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Letters of Two Brides

Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel. The two brides are Louise de Chaulieu (Madame Gaston) and Renée de Maucombe (Madame l'Estorade). The women became friends during their education at a convent and upon...

Kara Shallenberg and 5 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Howard Pyle - Wonder Clock

«Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day,» retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the form. While drawing on German, English, and Scandinavian folk literature for many of his...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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General Fiction

Fanny Burney - Camilla

Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels, in her novel Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh!...

Adrian Wheal and 15 more 40 hours 5 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charlotte Brontë - Professor

The book tells the story of a young man named William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school. (Summary from Wikipedia, adapted by Stav Nisser)

Rachel Lintern and 5 more 10 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Margaret O. Oliphant - Miss Marjoribanks

One of the so-called «Chronicles of Carlingford», of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant. The Chronicles originally appeared in the famous...

Michelle Crandall and 1 more 20 hours 9 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Charles Ellms - Pirates Own Book

Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers.

JDV and 21 more 13 hours 20 minutes

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Reference

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Hendrik van Loon - Story of Mankind

Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the people and events that changed the course of history. Portrays in vivid prose...

Michelle Crandall and 1 more 13 hours 30 minutes

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Historical Fiction

Fanny Burney - Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives...

Nikki Sullivan and 24 more 35 hours 50 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the...

Lucy Burgoyne and 13 more 15 hours 57 minutes

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General Fiction

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Favourite Chapters Collection 003

A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderful clarity with which great ideas are expressed, and still others because...

Robert Scott and 9 more 4 hours 22 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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John Wesley Powell - Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten...

Joan Freeman and 9 more 8 hours 7 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South (version 2)

North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret...

Kara Shallenberg and 10 more 18 hours 32 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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