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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers , as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of...

Kristin LeMoine and 49 more 55 hours 18 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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James Whitcomb Riley - In The Dark

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively....

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 21 minutes

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Poetry

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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy and Other Poems

Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first great successes. This volume also contains the small drama On the Tower, which...

Katie Rose and 16 more 1 hour 51 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Samuel Johnson - Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

This is a volume of selected essays by «the great master of reason» Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. — Summary by...

Barbara Baker and 10 more 13 hours 21 minutes

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Family Life

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George Gissing - Demos: A Story of English Socialism

«Richard Mutimer is delighted to inherit a large fortune. As a socialist, he means to use it well: he will open a factory in which workers would be treated well, he will advance his party's causes through his own...

KHand and 7 more 20 hours 55 minutes

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History

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Thomas Carlyle - French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille

The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the...

shawnzhu and 19 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Poetry

434

Anne Brontë - Lines Written From Home

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Lines Written From Home by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3rd, 2010.

Alana Jordan and 12 more 24 minutes

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Poetry

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Sir Walter Raleigh - Life (Raleigh Version)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Life by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 25th, 2010.

bmkeener and 13 more 13 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - I Say No

Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school; and Rev. Miles Mirabel, a clergyman....

Sandra G and 2 more 14 hours 31 minutes

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Poetry

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G. K. Chesterton - Chesterton Calendar

Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in prose, each day of the year is provided with a generally short quotation from...

debolee and 7 more 4 hours 41 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Henry Austin Dobson - You Bid Me Try

17 recordings of «You Bid Me Try» by Austin Dobson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 24, 2011. Henry Austin Dobson, commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. His official career was...

Anna Roberts and 16 more 20 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Desperate Remedies

Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not been able to marry. Cytherea in turn loves a young architect, Edward...

Philippa and 5 more 15 hours 55 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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