Rob Marland

26 books

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Satire

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Francis Beaumont - Knight of the Burning Pestle

The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts, first performed in 1607. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to Don...

Rob Marland 2 hours 39 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

488

Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Some Eminent Women of our Times

Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical sketches of 23 influential women from Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett...

Pamela Nagami and 13 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Law

530

Anonymous - Trial of Oscar Wilde (Dramatic Reading)

In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled from the original shorthand court reports by an anonymous author. While a more...

Rob Marland 3 hours 32 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

501

Unknown - National Nursery Book

«The Publishers offer in this little volume of well known and long loved stories to their young readers. The tales which have delighted the children of many generations will, they feel assured, be equally welcome in...

Phil Chenevert and 6 more 1 hour 30 minutes

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Self-Help

533

Pseudo-Aristotle - Aristotle's Masterpiece

Aristotle's Masterpiece, also known as The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher, is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular in England from the early modern period through to the 19th century. It was...

Rob Marland 2 hours 23 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

533

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso,...

Garth Burton and 12 more 7 hours 7 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

464

Robert Sherard - Life of Oscar Wilde

Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Life of Oscar Wilde was the second of his four biographies of the Irish playwright and wit. — Summary by Rob Board

Rob Marland 11 hours 38 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

518

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles...

Glenn O'Brien and 11 more 5 hours 58 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship

Biography & Autobiography

440

Robert Sherard - Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship

Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Story of an Unhappy Friendship was the first of his four biographies of the Irish playwright and wit. — Summary by Rob Board

Rob Marland 4 hours 2 minutes

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Memoirs

516

George William Foote - Prisoner for Blasphemy

George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding «The Freethinker», a magazine that, despite the best efforts of the 19th Century British judicial...

Rob Marland 6 hours 54 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy, religion, health, humor, history, and literature. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Craig Campbell and 17 more 5 hours 49 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Memoirs

532

Solomon Northup - Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for twelve years on a Louisiana plantation, he is eventually freed and reunited...

Rob Marland 8 hours 4 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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