Moira Fogarty

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 2

The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature...

MorganScorpion and 4 more 6 hours 19 minutes The Faerie Queene

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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Emma (version 5)

A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised without sufficient discipline or occupation. Handsome, clever and rich, Emma...

Moira Fogarty 16 hours 44 minutes

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Literary Fiction

Murasaki Shikibu - Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)

The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes...

Moira Fogarty and 7 more 8 hours 52 minutes

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Political Science

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John Milton - Areopagitica

A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War… Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643,...

Moira Fogarty 2 hours 1 minute

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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 3)

«All the privilege I claim for my own sex… is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.» In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class...

Moira Fogarty 8 hours 28 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Ghost Story Collection 003

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles...

Betsie Bush and 7 more 4 hours 44 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 15th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 16 more 20 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading...

Michael Sirois and 19 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two...

Aaron Decker and 13 more 14 hours 53 minutes

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Memoirs

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Susanna Moodie - Roughing It in the Bush

'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englishwoman homesteading abroad. Her narrative was constructed partly as a...

Moira Fogarty 18 hours 48 minutes

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Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John Charles Dent - Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated to Canada shortly after that event, bringing with them, of course, the youth...

Moira Fogarty and 9 more 5 hours 27 minutes

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War & Military

Sun Tzu 孙武 - Art of War

«The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work...

Moira Fogarty 1 hour 12 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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