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Literary Fiction

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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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Poetry

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Thomas Nashe - In Time of Pestilence, 1593

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of In Time of Pestilence, 1593 by Thomas Nashe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 1st, 2010.

Abraham Epstein and 9 more 22 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Flying Inn

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of «Progressive» Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of...

Charles Bice and 12 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Slavery of Our Times

This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so much, is related to economic and political life. (Summary by Aylmer Maude,...

Luke Meier and 7 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Emily Neville - It's Like This, Cat (Version 2)

This novel won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1964. This delightful story revolves around a 14 year old boy, Dave and his adopted cat, called just «Cat», who turns his ordinary...

Chance D. Ervin and 8 more 3 hours 26 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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George MacDonald - Lost Princess

Also known as «A Double Story» or «The Wise Woman.» The story of two very spoiled girls, a princess and a peasant, who are kidnapped by a strange woman for a lesson in life. They may not emerge the same… but...

Zoe Dickinson and 11 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Joseph Lewis French - Great Pirate Stories

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a...

James Christopher and 11 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Heroides

The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, not only for their interesting subject — letters by famous mythological...

Julie VW and 11 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 060

LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 060: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Ransom and 5 more 22 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason

The Critique of Practical Reason ( Kritik der praktischen Vernunft ) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788. It follows on from his Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Bibles

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World English Bible - Bible (WEB) Old Testament - complete

The World English Bible is a modern English translation of the Bible, released directly into the public domain. (Summary by Leon Mire)

David Leeson and 37 more 58 hours 2 minutes Bible (World English Bible)

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Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America Vol. II

Democracy in America was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. It is a classic work on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses as seen from a European point of...

Sibella Denton and 6 more 13 hours 11 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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