Ruth Golding

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Poetry

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Voltairine de Cleyre - Selected Works: Poems

Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912)was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected poems....

Hannah Dowell and 9 more 3 hours 5 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Gabriel Tarde - Underground Man

This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th century. To survive, the remnants of humanity had to build a new civilization...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

459

Albert Kinross - Fearsome Island

No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipwreck on an uncharted island and his supernatural adventures there with a...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 55 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - House-Boat on the Styx

The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx. This does not appear to be the...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz and 5 more 2 hours 54 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 4

Book 4 — Cardinal Wolsey. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other...

KHand and 7 more 2 hours 54 minutes Windsor Castle

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Humorous Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres — fiction and non-fiction....

Sally Ann Cook and 15 more 2 hours 51 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Psychology

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Arnold Bennett - Mental Efficiency

In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life, the advantages (and disadvantages) of marriage and other pocket...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 50 minutes

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Philosophy

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Arnold Bennett - Human Machine

Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: «I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 48 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Bab Ballads (version 2)

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Charles A. Conant - Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American Revolutionary War and became an aide to General George Washington. He was...

Mike Pelton and 6 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Poetry

528

William Wordsworth - Microphone Showdown 2

This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to another project in which readers submitted readings of a poem on a...

TriciaG and 45 more 2 hours 35 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Children's Shakespeare

This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short stories or fairy tales suitable to keep the attention of child readers or...

Tim Ferreira and 7 more 2 hours 34 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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